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.

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

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.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

There is a right physical size for every idea.