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.

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

Simplicity is complexity resolved

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

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.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?