I’m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

So important to keep the pathway of success clean.

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.

When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.

We must not lose sight of the fundamental issue of policy which is that people who come to the country on visa status must never be abused.

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.

One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.