The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

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 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.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.

Charisma without character is postponed calamity.

Time is the least thing we have.

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.