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.

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.

People think that they see, but they don't.

Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring.

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

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