What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

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.

The people of the light, loves the light of knowledge.

If you’re to choose to paint your life today... What will it be? Remember, you’re the artist, not the canvas.

If you meet a man who deeply believes he knows it all, then you have succeeded in finding a man who's unwise.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior.

To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference.

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

A gentleman can live through anything.