Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

I want to start where language ends.

Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction.. they are completely different.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.