I think in terms of the day's resolutions not the year's.

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.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger

The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlightA sly grin and a bowl full of stars

The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.

Thanks [Donald] Trump for exposing evangelicals as 'shameless hypocrites'.

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt.

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.