It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

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

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume.

All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know.

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.