My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).

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.

Try to show grace, mercy and compassion, for one day you may need them.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy. How can I ever forget them.

I'm very, very low-key in general.

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

The lottery is a tax on ignorance, and all the losers that play the game are paying the price for their stupidity.