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.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

The important thing is somehow to begin.

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.

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.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.

I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.

I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.

Nothing matters as long as you are kind and authentic. If you are, then you did your best, and that is all you can do.

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.