When I came to New York, it was cheap!

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

Despite her fears she found, The secret to an outstanding life, Is risking the fall, For the possibility of flight.

There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

I've also found that at the bottom of all of these qualities is love. If you have enough love you have enough courage, enough love then you have patience.

We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.