The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.
I would wake up at night and think, 'What the hell have I gotten myself into? You don't want to do that!' But you gotta do something, and with art, there's freedom - which is actually very seldom practiced by artists.
There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.
Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.
My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.
I hated motivators - never been a motivator. Motivation is like a warm bath, and you should take a bath probably, but you need more than that; you need strategy. I was a strategist, but nobody responded to that, so I was, like, "OK, what am I? I'm a coach. I'm not a guru. " As an athlete, I had great coaches, and I was a better athlete than many of them, but they still were better than I was as a coach because they could see when I couldn't see. I thought, that's great, because I'm not better than anybody, but I do have the skills that I can help people.
If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!
One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona.