Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigg….

Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume..

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

In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help y….

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the re….

The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him….

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it again….

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

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

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art..

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

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

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

To be an artist is to believe in life..

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'..

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..

Being an artist is celebrating life..

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

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

Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiri….