One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

One works without thinking how to work.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

I always ask myself. Who was it that dyed my heart black, and left a spot for it to grow out from it?

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain't easy.

Nobody ever feels they’re doing well with teenagers, ” he said. “I think that’s kind of the point of them.

A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

And when he catches me looking at him, he gives me this incredibly sweet, calm smile, and I think that we've got our lives ahead of us, our whole lives.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the World.