I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

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.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.]

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

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.