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. — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
As soon as you step into the water, you are part of the food chain; you're part of the wilderness. That's why I like… — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
I've made a lifelong attempt to involve myself deeper and deeper in my medium. — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
Sculpture and seams are like boxers and broken noses: They go hand in hand. — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction. — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
Being in a room full of my art makes me incredibly nervous because the work always gets damaged when it's shown, and I hate… — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
“Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.” — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
I've always been concerned with my sculpture. The drawings I do at night at home to relax. And for a long time, I just… — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
Sometimes in a sculpture, it's interesting to me what's stylized and what's natural and how those forms interrelate, as they interrelate in ourselves. — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
There are parts of us we stylize and present to the world. And there are parts of us that we don't stylize and are… — Charles Ray Copy Share Image
