You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

My sculpture thrives in the context of the city, interacting with people in the course of their daily lives.

I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.

The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.

We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

You know, as a woman, it is tough to get to the top - like to get to that respected level in this industry - in any industry, I think.

The speed of light sucks.

I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

I dont like going for more than a year without doing theater. I dont mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel Im open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.