To see is to think, and to think is to see.

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

The authorities of this so-called education take pride in their ship shape structure where they manufacture dumb manikins.

Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive.

This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.

It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress.

There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.