All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part.

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

The important thing is somehow to begin.

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

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

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.]