Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain things occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.

Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.