The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.

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.

I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!

Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

You have to work with people you really love.

Once we're past 2012 I think it will be very difficult NOT to be enlightend

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.

You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.