To be an artist is to believe in life.

People think that they see, but they don't.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

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.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring.