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.

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?

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

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

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

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