“The city becomes an ideal metaphor for how I perceive human beings.”

“It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.”

“Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels.”

“My work has become a simple metaphor of life. A figure walking down his road, making his mark. It is an affirmation of my human scale and senses: how far I walk, what stones I pick up, my particular experiences”

“You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it”

“The thesis that the human being seeks God because of the disorder he perceives in himself does not take into account that the human being seems to prefer disorder.”

“There is no ideal system just as there are no ideal persons, ideal families or ideal cities, we have to get away from ideals.”

“Dialectic functions by converting everything it touches into figure but metaphor is a means of perceiving one thing in terms of another.”

“Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent Mother in whose womb we live is mindlessly poisoned and raped. Surely, our insane denial has to be perceived and acted upon.”

“I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me: and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
of human cities torture.”