I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest -- tree trunks, the growth of branches from the trunk, each finding its own individual air-space.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life.

In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.

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.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

In Giacometti's work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and also, he's brought back to sculpture a nervous sensitivity which the 'pure carving' side of sculpture can lose sight of altogether.

Everything I do is intended to be big.

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.

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.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally and my aims in particular.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.

Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.