You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into reality...as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living.