What Is Real Is Not The External

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.

Nothing Grows Well In The Shade Of A Big Tree.

Why Talk About Sculpture When I Can Photograph It?

The Function Of Art Is To Make That Understood Which In The Form Of Argument Would Be Incomprehensible.

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.