I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and colour which re….

Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new people to embrace, with an exact….

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the ….

All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills we….

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body..

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure..

Body experience... is the centre of creation..

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive ….

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life..

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional….

Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let ….

I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep..

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people ….

My works are an imitation of my own past and present..

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and ….

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not..

Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all th….

My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the thinking hand, must be relaxed, sensitive….

My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence)..

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it….

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally….