All of a sudden, we realized that someone was paying us for having such a good time.

The beauty I see and that I receive from nature compensates the pain, most of the time.

Seek out uncomfortable situations.

The fact that we know that we are going to die one way or another should be motivating us to do exactly what our hearts tell us we should be doing all the time.

If you want to be a writer, you have to write.

I literally did not know what I was doing.

I didn't set out to start an organization. I simply wanted to build one playground to give these children the childhood they deserved.

It's amazing that some kids have to ask us, "What is a playground?"

I stand here as a fourteen product of philanthropy, of charity, of community giving me a bear hug and having an opportunity to succeed although my circumstances were less fortunate.

It's up to each of us to find poetry in our lives.

Communication through word and through line transcends eons.

To my mind, heritage is the passion for bringing the past into the future.

Our income went up, but our happiness went down.

We saw ourselves as just these two people who got lucky making these weird videos and now Google wants us to make one for them. It blew us away.

I think that's one thing we don't allow ourselves: the time to think. There's this fear that you need to be rushing.

When I first started working, before people knew my name, there was an assumption that I had to be a man because of the material and the few number of female sculptors at the time.

Working in cowhide and being a black female in South Africa comes with a whole lot of baggage.

Freedom is being able to define your constraints.

Freedom is the absence of constraints.

Constraints invite inventiveness.

I create with the intent to share.

When we're in front of a frame, we go into a mode of 'I'm about to watch something'. This works against the impression of presence.

The frame works against the effect of cinematic presence.

Understand the DNA of the tools you work with.

That ability to be just enough in the present moment is exactly what minimalism is.