The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part.

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.

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

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

I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

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