The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

nothing can block your light. what's for you will be yours even when shade is thrown

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

My main fight is for freedom and equality.

Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.

Powerless rage can work miracles.

You become great by going small thing in a great way.