I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

It's the role of the artist to pursue content

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.