The English are a nation of consummate cant.
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or feel if the artist had not done it. To do this, he has to stretch his own first.
The creative habit is like a drug.
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
Promise me this, that you'll stand by me forever. But if God forbid Fate should step in and force us into a goodbye. If you have children someday, when they point to the pictures please tell them my name. Tell them how the crowd went wild, tell them how I hope they shine.
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
When I look back I feel very grateful.