Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

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.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

If you can’t beat fear, just do it scared.

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

A day after the faire.

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.