I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

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.

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.

We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?

The beauty you want to attract is the one you should become.

How old are you?”“Old enough to know better, but still young enough to do it again.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

You can't understand light unless you understand darkness, because that's where life is most often lived - somewhere between the two. It's messy and it's beautiful all at the same time.

Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.

We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to occupy them save playing a harp and incessantly singing.

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.