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

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.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.

It was the storm that would forever change the course of human destiny.

May the fullness of God's love and His mercy shine as treasures to be found in every horizon.

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern.

My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding.

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.

The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.