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.

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.

A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

Meditation... never leave the body without it!

The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world..This is how it has worked for me.

Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.