Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.

Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids, and archaeological research has showed us this, had little figurines made by the workers, to express their devotion to their god.

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.