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It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature..

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

You leave space for the body, imagining the other part even though it isn't there.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years

The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

The important thing is somehow to begin.

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

People think that they see, but they don't.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.

There is a right physical size for every idea.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.

The creative habit is like a drug.

A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.

Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.