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.
There is a right physical size for every idea.
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.
The important thing is somehow to begin.
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.