I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language..

What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers. I think the basic condition of art is the vie….

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole..

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent t….

Any time you do something, you make decisions about time and space. I wanted those decisions to be out of my hands. I could be dragged, carried along….

Architecture is not about space but about time..

I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm sub….

I wish we could make buildings that could constantly explode and come back in different ways. The idea of a changing environment suggests that if you….

Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the system is just one thing,….

What connects architecture and music is that neither one is really an object. It's more like an ambience, a surrounding and a context. You can do oth….

When a building is so complete within itself, I always think, "Why do I even have to go inside it?" I would love to do architecture that people can h….

Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to work both ways. Everyone think….

Everybody uses labels: they give you a handle on things - an over-simplified handle, sure, but without labels, without ads, without words, the world ….

[My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it becam….

[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since a picture was what a gallery or mu….

I like intersections. They're the nature of New York, and there's always the possibility that when you're at one you can meet someone new. Have I eve….

Architecture is inherently a totalitarian activity. One thing we hate about it is that when you design a space, you're probably designing people's be….

I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. I thought, there's no reason to go to different parts of our world, because y….

Rather than attend to a world considered as if it's out there, I have to start to attend to me. That led to some things that I never wanted it to lea….

It was an incredible way to grow up, because words that you're taught - these definite things - you realize they sort of beautifully fall apart; that….

Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think for me the change from fict….