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

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.]

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.

All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know.

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

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.

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