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

The important thing is somehow to begin.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

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

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

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.

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