The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

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.

I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be.

They got a manure machine in there, ” Keller said. He went up to the barn and peeked through a hole between tow boards. “On wheels. It’s fun to ride sometimes, when you don’t care how you smell.

Desire. Enthusiasm. Purpose. Pleasure. Delight. Peace. Power. However you define passion, it is at the heart of your motivation.

The drinking parent lied to the sober parent

Her, ” he said. “I’ll take her.

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

Toni Morrison seems to have a lot of faith in people - that's what I mean by gentle power.

...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.