The Soul Cannot Thrive In The Absence

The Secret Of Life Is To Have A Task, Something You Devote Your Entire Life To, Something You Bring Everything To, Every Minute Of The Day For The Rest Of Your Life. And The Most Important Thing Is, It Must Be Something You Cannot Possibly Do.

All Art Should Have A Certain Mystery And Should Make Demands On The Spectator. Giving A Sculpture Or A Drawing Too Explicit A Title Takes Away Part Of That Mystery So That The Spectator Moves On To The Next Object, Making No Effort To Ponder The Meaning Of What He Has Just Seen. Everyone Thinks That He Or She Looks But They Don't Really, You Know.

All Good Art Has Contained Both Abstract And Surrealist Elements, Just As It Has Contained Both Classical And Romantic Elements - Order And Surprise, Intellect And Imagination, Conscious And Unconscious. Both Sides Of The Artist's Personality Must Play Their Part.

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.

A Piece Of Sculpture Can Have A Hole Through It And Not Be Weakened If The Hole Is Of A Studied Size, Shape, And Direction.