People think that they see, but they don't.

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.

The important thing is somehow to begin.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.]

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

I think about sculpture all the time. I work at it for ten to twelve hours a day. I even dream about it. If as a result I was only to produce something that everyone immediately understood I would't have been thinking very profoundly.