I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

To see is to think, and to think is to see.

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.

As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.

Racism itself is black. It's OWL. It's everywhere.It's Our Whole Life

We can feel damaged and sad and mad and know that it doesn’t make us any less worthy than when we didn’t feel that way.

I named my album 'So Uncool' because it defies the ordinary: you're different from everyone else. It's like, being uncool makes you cool because you're different!

A good bargaine is a pick-purse. [A good bargain is a pick-purse.]

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

We like the gift when we the giver prize.

She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.

But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.