28 Quotes by Charles Ray

I wasn't the class nerd, but I was weird. I could tell long stories and be funny, but I couldn't do sports. And I was always terrified of being held back.

Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction.

I've made a lifelong attempt to involve myself deeper and deeper in my medium.

I think walking is a little more primal than art-making.

I've had fantasies in the past of walking across America or some great distance, but it's such a commitment of time that it's stopped me.

I do a lot of thinking about my work while I'm walking. More in the early morning when I'm trekking in the mountains. When I'm walking in the city, I think more about people around me - my brothers, my wife, some business situation, commitments.

We're all equal in sleep.

Many of my sculptures take a long time to make.

There's something about a toy to a child where the relationship is real, where the kid is playing, and it's just really amazing.