Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.

- Stephen De Staebler

I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing.

- Stephen De Staebler

There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as colour.

- Stephen De Staebler

Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens of life, if you look at i…

- Stephen De Staebler