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 the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

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.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

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

There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.

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