Body experience... is the centre of creation.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.

Brutality goes hand in hand with orthodoxy, be it Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Atheistic or any other.

I’m not afraid of death, just of dying.

We don't need wings to be angelsWe don't need reasons to be rightYour love makes us all betterThat who we really areAngels and heroes at heart

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

Real Madrid are like a rabbit in the glare of the headlights in the face of Manchester United's attacks. But this rabbit comes with a suit of armour in the shape of two precious away goals.

I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.

Everybody was inspired by the drawings and the wind tunnels and the race cars - but no one wanted to work with me because I had a reputation for being an aerodynamic dictator!

It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.