You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.

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

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

You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.

It is said that stone is the affection of old men. That may be so. It is the most challenging to work. A dialogue ensues – of chance no chance, mistakes no mistakes. No erasing or reproduction is possible, at least in the way I work, leaving nature’s mark. It is unique and final.

Art should become as one with its surroundings.