To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

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.

You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.

When faced with a problem, don't keep on discussing it. Go beyond the mental barrier to resolve it.

To live on the edge requires an exceptional ability to balance.

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other.

How do I become still? By flowing with the stream.

You always have to finish what you start and I learned that some of life's greatest lessons come with disappointment.

Talent emerges over the course of a lifetime of reciprocal interactions between the developing brain and a stimulating environment.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon.

Since I was four, I can't remember wanting to do anything except entertain. And I got some lucky breaks. My daughter Victoria is the same.