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Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

I knew I had the right material and I knew what I was going after.

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.