The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

When an artist stopped being a child, he would stop being an artist.

To order space is to give it meaning.

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

The best is that which is most spontaneous or seemingly so.

In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever.

I am always learning, always discovering.

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

Well, we lost it, and that’s all there is to that.

The truly civilized man has no enemies.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.