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 for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

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

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.