The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.

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My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the...

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the...

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an...

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an...

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do...

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do...

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate...

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate...

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is...

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is...

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography...

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography...

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my...

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my...

I've nothing to say.

I've nothing to say.

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems...

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems...

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement...

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement...

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of...

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of...

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic...

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic...

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter...

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter...

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the...

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the...