The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.