Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.

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

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

[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 rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the thinking hand, must be relaxed, sensitive. The rhythms of thought pass through the fingers and grip of this hand into the stone.

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.