They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.

I’m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct--as irrational animals do--will destroy them.

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.