If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

I've often stopped working for long periods.

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

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

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

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.