I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

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.

You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.

if you fix a bug, sometimes there’s no guarantee won't bring up another bug

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.