A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.