Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.

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.

Man does not commit sin in unintentional deed, but he might be the only one that could justify it.

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola.

Surround yourself with people that are going to support you on your journey, and get rid of the ones that don't.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.