I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already
The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.
If sculpture can really deal with the body, because we all inhabit ourselves, and if sculpture can really do that, which it is supposed to be able to do, and through it ask questions, philosophical questions, about being, I think these are all things we work on, all of us in our different ways, so perhaps somewhere in there, there are moments where dumb objects can speak.
I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that?
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
A nation that honors God will always be honored by God. I've seen nations that have dishonored God: God has been taken out of schools, the government, the military; and when you take Him out of a nation, how can you expect God to protect this nation?