Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring.

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

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

There is a right physical size for every idea.

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

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

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.