The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

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

I believe that woman are superior to men.

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."