One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

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 we love we shall grow to resemble.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.

90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never.

What are these voices outside love's open door, make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold.

On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

I will go on shining, shining like brand new. I'll never look behind me, my troubles will be few.