 Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. |
| There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer. |
| What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world. |
| I've nothing to say. |
| Sculpture occupies the same space as your body. |
| We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness. |
| I, in the end, make art for myself. |
| I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade. |
| It's the role of the artist to pursue content. |
| A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already. |
| One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist. |
| The idea is that the object has a language unto itself. |
| My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing. |
| Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form. |
| One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author. |
| You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going. |
| I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist. |
| The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. |
| One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space? |
| It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere. |
