If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.

My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork.

Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives.

For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.

I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.

This was the part of the road he knew best, the part his old blue Schwinn had known so well that at one time, the bike might have found its way back home without anyone riding it.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.

No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

Some sunshine is good for the soul, but I always make sure I wear a big hat.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.

As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.