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.'

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.