We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.