The Work Of Art Expresses Precisely Those

What Is Real Is Not The External Form, But The Essence Of Things... It Is Impossible For Anyone To Express Anything Essentially Real By Imitating Its Exterior Surface.

Why Talk About Sculpture When I Can Photograph It?

The Work Of Art Expresses Precisely Those Things Which Do Not Die. It Must Do So, However, In A Form That Bears Witness To The Artist's Own Era.

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 Movement, Give A Pattern Or Shape Of Reality. I Want Just The Flash Of Its Spirit.

Simplicity Is Not An Objective In Art, But One Achieves Simplicity Despite One's Self By Entering Into The Real Sense Of Things.