"I think if you want to make art, at some point you have to suspend judgment, and you have to involve yourself with pl…"

"I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said: "Richard, calm down.""

"Space, as my work evolved, really became my subject."

"The steel and the space, or the object and the void, become one and the same."

"Basically, that is my subject: I use steel to organize space."

"To see is to think, and to think is to see."

"Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before."

"Don't start telling me buildings are works of art, because I don't buy it."

"You can talk about the 'how' and the 'what', but "when you get to the "why" it gets a little more difficult."

"With any work of art, what happens is if you're open to seeing it you probably have a sensation," he tells the talk s…"