I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.
The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.
I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.
Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever quality you put into the work. The work doesn't have to be a transparent vehicle for you to say things about life today.
The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backwards. I rely on the machines for doing the gross stock removal and then, when it comes to the final refinements and fitting of joints and things, making things work together, I rely more on sharp-edged tools that I push by hand.
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.
Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or very slightly diluted canned soup and served over noodles or rice. With chops or chocolate eclairs, however, the only solution is to claim you don't like them.
Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to forget who you are and settle for being something horrible like an--an accountant!
I don't think there can be anyone on earth more happy than I am right now. Inside, I feel fulfilled.