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..

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

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be gra….

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

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and fe….

The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult….

All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise,….

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

There is a right physical size for every idea..

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..

All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part ….

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is….

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

All art is an abstraction to some degree..

I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes in what is so p….

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most….

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

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

All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particula….

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and e….