All art is an abstraction to some degree.
People think that they see, but they don't.
I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
I think about sculpture all the time. I work at it for ten to twelve hours a day. I even dream about it. If as a result I was only to produce something that everyone immediately understood I would't have been thinking very profoundly.
I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.