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.

I think about sculpture all the time. I work at it for ten to twelve hours a day. I even dream about it. If as a result I was only to produce something that everyone immediately understood I would't have been thinking very profoundly.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

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

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.

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

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