Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.]

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'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.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

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

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

To be an artist is to believe in life.