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.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

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

Being an artist is celebrating life.

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

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.