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

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

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.

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!

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

Do you come here often?"..."Often enough, but I've never sat across from such a beautiful woman before.

Even suffering when wrapped in love, seems tolerable.

How would your life be different if instead of spending your energy and focus on hating those who hate you, you spent your energy and focus on loving those who love you?

It is about doing the most good with the only two hands I can control.

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made.

The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.