Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.

It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.

My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture.

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.

When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.

I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.

Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.

. . . when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.

You're the only person who means anything to me in the whole world, you're all I've got...""Well then you've got nothin.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.

He who is grateful doesn't suffer.

[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.

In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.

Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.

Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.