That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

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

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

If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.

Silence prevailed everywhere, like the gloomy dumbness after the riots in the city.

Look what I’m dealing with, man, I’m dealing with fools and trolls.

I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I dont Twitter or anything.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

We the money team Fell asleep next to that cake and had a money dream

The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.