Being An Artist Is Celebrating Life.

I'm Very Grateful That I Was Too Poor To Get To Art School Until I Was 21. . . I Was Old Enough When I Got There To Know How To Get Something Out Of It.

I Think, What Has This Day Brought Me, And What Have I Given It?

I Think About Sculpture All The Time. I Work At It For Ten To Twelve Hours A Day. I Even Dream About It. If As A Result I Was Only To Produce Something That Everyone Immediately Understood I Would't Have Been Thinking Very Profoundly.

Being An Artist Is Celebrating Life.

Because A Work Does Not Aim At Reproducing Natural Appearances It Is Not, Therefore, An Escape From Life -- But May Be A Penetration Into Reality...as Expression Of The Significance Of Life, A Stimulation To Greater Effort In Living.