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The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.
He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.
Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.
I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.
Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.
I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B.
Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.
First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.
Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?
I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain.
I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood.
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.
The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.
All my high school papers were written in the rare book room.
Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.
Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.
Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.
If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.
No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.
There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.
I want to make work that reflects different times and processes.
I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think.
Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.
With art, your motor sense should be developed at full capacity.
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.
My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.
Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.
I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.
I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.