Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.

I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.

I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'

The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer's movement. Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes.

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.