When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.

What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.