I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

We men had a meeting a long time ago, and we all decided, 'It's trousers'. And that's what we've worn ever since.

You're not as invisible as you think.

It is true that nobody is above the law, but power can make somebody invisible.

When people clap for me I say, don't clap for me, clap for what God has done.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

I don't feel that I need a tattoo to represent myself as a Samoan or a Christian.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.