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

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

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.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

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.

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

There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.