"Art excludes the unnecessary. Frank Stella has found it necessary to paint stripes. There is nothing else in his pain…"

"Emerson writes in his Journal that all men try their hands at poetry, but few know which their poems are. The poets a…"

"The course of development"

"PROPOSAL FOR AN EXPLOSION - An appropriate contractor is retained to place and fuse an explosive charge sufficient to…"

"There should be no one place or even a group of places where you should be. [quote, 1969]"

"FORM = STRUCTURE = PLACE"

"We live in a world of replicas, and I try desperately in a world of replicas to produce things that are not replicas …"

"Whole poems are made out of many single poems we call words.. .I am trying to recover a part of the poet's work which…"

"When I visit places remote from where I ordinarily work, people ask me long, elaborate questions that could not possi…"

"I realized the wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way [by carving it]."