The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately

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.

Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

I've got 99 problems and I won't let you have the honor of being my 100th.

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.

The only reason Toronto is no longer the dullest city on earth is that it is no longer full of Anglo-Canadians. It is full of Hong Kong Chinese. And not a few Italians.

Literature has become my life.

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.