You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

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.

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?

Keep off your mind from the reward until the work is done

Quality brings security and confidence

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.

Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.