To see far is one thing, going there is another.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

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

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

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.

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.