It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy.

I never for one minute questioned what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that I didn't have what I had. If just didn't dawn on me. And so if you know what you have, then you know that there's nobody on earth that can affect you.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise.

In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.