When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

I had my freedom and that was nice.

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.