“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”

“Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”

“It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.”

“I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.”

“Vision is the true creative rhythm.”

“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.”

“You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.”

“I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.”

“I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.”