What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

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

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.

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

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