Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.

I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

Every head should be cultivated.

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.

The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.