I perceive my limitations even as I work. There are times when I see nothing but restrictions, barriers. Learning takes time.

For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact to it which will free him of the artificiality of the present and his dependence on industrial products.

The best is that which is most spontaneous or seemingly so.

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

When an artist stopped being a child, he would stop being an artist.

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.