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.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

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

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