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

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.

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

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.

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.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.