Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s been waiting for you.

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

I am not an Earth artist, I'm totally involved in the sky.

I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.

We create the reality in which we live.

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

Did you just mentally pistol whip that guy, with his own gun? Nice, Amber. I would have just killed him.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.

Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.