My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.

I don't know the difference between working and not working.

Beautiful things make people happy.

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.

Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.