"My work comes first, reasons for it follow."

"Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private."

"You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's bein…"

"A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas …"

"Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often …"

"Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work."

"My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds — what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my…"

"I find some of my new works disturbing, just as I find nature as a whole disturbing. The landscape is often perceived…"

""One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is …"

"The skepticism of the art establishment seems to be based on, as much as anything, a kind of big-city prejudice again…"