You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.