All art is an abstraction to some degree.

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

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

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.

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.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

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.