I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.

And grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away, and the person so real, so beloved, becomes a dim, slightly out-of-focus shadow.

You are sweet to be so concerned over my love life, but I’ve decided only to date guys who have bigger swords than me.

I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Everything you need is within reach, the key is whose going to reach

If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it.

Inexperience loves to preach.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.