I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.