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.

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

To be an artist is to believe in life.

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

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

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.

The important thing is somehow to begin.

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

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 everything.

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 feeds inspiration.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

I am most right because I realize I am most wrong

George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.

If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.

In London, theatregoers expect to laugh; in Paris, they wait grimly for proof that they should.