I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself..

You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with..

The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this pr….

I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. W….

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional..

My purpose isn't to be confrontational. My purpose is to find out about the world and play myself against it to the extent that it is even conceivabl….

I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic faraw….

Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site. There ar….

Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have new things if you don't occasiona….

I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions..

Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was:….

In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did c….

I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways..

Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find..

I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and th….

I'm depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of cancel each other out. So the meaning is ….

The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the futur….

People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns..

"Naming Tokyo" kicked off at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in June, and it's going to travel to various art institutions for years to come. Every time….

I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and agai….

"Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is that connections are natura….