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

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

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.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

When you have experienced the depth of your inner self, the idea of enlightenment is no longer a goal to strive towards, but rather an attitude to maintain.

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

They care about their club, and that's why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative

It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.

If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

I feel sexiest when I can make you laugh.

Only your friends steal your books.

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!