My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

All ideas grow out of other ideas

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.

I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.

I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy.

As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

You ever read an article, and at the bottom, it says, 'Continued on page six'? I'm , 'Not for me. I'm done.'

There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply.