My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

My sculpture thrives in the context of the city, interacting with people in the course of their daily lives.

I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.

The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.

If you have to ask if you’ve done enough, you haven’t. Each day brings with it the opportunity to do more than you did yesterday.

Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying?

Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn't know what he was doing.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?

As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

The world is not always ours to understand.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby reconvened.