A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

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.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.