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

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 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.

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial, and misunderstood . . .As a minister I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.

We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Looks like macho boy's cool just melted like a Slush Puppie in August.

I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.