All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.

Always using the same methods is not God’s way

It’s so unrewarding, being a woman.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

Be a father, if not, why bother, son? A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one. If you did it, admit it and stick with it.

Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

And I’m not spying! I’m evaluating!” “It’s the same difference!

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.