I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.

Life is an experimental field.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?

All our clients know that we're there, we're steady, we do a good job, we earn a fair return for ourselves, which I think is critical.

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.

God does awesome things with us.

The most successful people are those who are wildly enthusiastic about their work.

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.