Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

I believe that woman are superior to men.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.