To Be An Artist Is

I Find In All The Artists That I Admire Most A Disturbing Element, A Distortion, Giving Evidence Of A Struggle . . . . In Great Art, This Conflict Is Hidden, It Is Unresolved. All That Is Bursting With Energy Is Disturbing - Not Perfect.

If I Set Out To Sculpt A Standing Man And It Becomes A Lying Woman, I Know I Am Making Art.

One Mustn't Let Technique Be The Consciously Important Thing. It Should Be At The Service Of Expressing The Form.

Our Knowledge Of Shape And Form Remains, In General, A Mixture Of Visual And Of Tactile Experiences... A Child Learns About Roundness From Handling A Ball Far More Than From Looking At It.

You Leave Space For The Body, Imagining The Other Part Even Though It Isn't There.