I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

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

I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.

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.

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.

It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.

I believe that the physical is the geography of the being.