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Gardening always has been an art, essentially.
It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention.
Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a... →
There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.
There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.
Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and... →
When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a... →
Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.
It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got... →
Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you... →
For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in... →
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of... →
If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a... →