When an artist stopped being a child, he would stop being an artist.
The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.
Brancusi made me realize that what I had learned previously — the quick ways of doing things — was all wrong... It is not the quick solutions. It is not something you learn and apply. After all, it is a search you have to enter into yourself.
Art should become as one with its surroundings.
In my work, I wanted something irreducible, an absence of the gimmicky and clever.
I am always learning, always discovering.