I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

Complete control can be the death of a work.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.