Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

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.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

Toil is the true knight's pastime.

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.

I wake up some mornings hating me too.

There's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project.

Maybe the best hasn’t happened yet.