The form is always the measure of the obsession.

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.

The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.