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.

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

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.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.

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