I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.

I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.

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

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

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