One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

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.

The young never expected to die.

Don't cross the boundaries.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

I'm sorry I didn't have this revelation earlier. I sleep better and more soundly because I'm not participating anymore.

Help me find more money in my budget!

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

I can say this much with confidence - that I now have a sound of my own

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.