A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.

I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.

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.

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.

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

Turner - whether on canvas or paper - can create almost measurable distances of space and air - air that you can draw, in which you can work out what the section through it would be. The space he creates is not emptiness; it is filled with 'solid' atmosphere.