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.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

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