To order space is to give it meaning.

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

When an artist stopped being a child, he would stop being an artist.

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

The best is that which is most spontaneous or seemingly so.

In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever.

I am always learning, always discovering.

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

Appreciate the moment.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success.

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.

Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

I wonder what the difference between love and control is, but I'm afraid to look those words up in a dictionary.

I have a lot of hang-ups in life with men. I'm not very trusting.

I'm proud by not being frustrated, jealous or too confused by remaining creative. It's very easy to give up, and to keep going and sticking to your own ethos is very difficult.

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.