If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.