Sculptor

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

Of every noble work the silent part is best, of all expression that which can not be expressed.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

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

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its...

To see far is one thing, going there is another.