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.

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.

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

Forever's just a word.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

When you're in touch with spirit, you put feeling over results.

Madame....gloatingly savored her words as earlier she had savored her pig's trotter.

I'm not much of a party guy anymore.

What Nature bids is good, is wise, and faultless we obey.

I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.