“Sculpture is as free as the mind; as complex as life..”

“Sculpture and painting are moments of life. Poetry is life itself.”

“I can say this. I believe that the human mind, or even the mind of a cat, is more interesting in its complexity than an entire galaxy if it is devoid of life.”

“Fairy tales--simple stories for simple minds, a breath of air to cool brows overheated by the complexities of real life.”

“The laws of nature are rigged not only in favor of complexity, or just in favor of life, but also in favor of mind. To put it dramatically, it implies that mind is written into the laws of nature in a fundamental way.”

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

“Visions are from the imaginative mind, sculpture can come from the found discards in nature, from sticks and stones and parts and pieces, assembled or monolithic, solid form, open form, lines of form, or, like a painting, the illusion of form. And sculpture can be painting and painting can be sculpture..”

“A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.”

“The complexity of the world is not revealed by its simplification in human mind.”

“Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.”