Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

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.

No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.

Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.

For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.

When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.

It's not the pizza, darlin', its my masculine presence." Joe Morelli

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.