To be an artist is to believe in life.

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

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.

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.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?