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.

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

A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

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.

The important thing is somehow to begin.