I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

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.

The journey from Ignorance to Awareness is nothing but perceptual bliss to actual bliss

Kids are real artists. They’d rather paint the outside of the box than being stuck inside.

I think what I really want to do [is] do something charitable.

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

We're going to move left and right at the same time.

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

Plenty of people get excited about the universe.

I tramp a perpetual journey.