Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.