There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

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 knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.

Marriage, " she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

So this is how the merchant ship won’t follow us, ” I mumbled, “They aren’t insane enough to join the party.

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.