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

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.

All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.