“Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long.”

“Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom.”

“The only place to go now is into the context. If you can find it. Between the context and the content, between the mainline and the hardline, falls the shadow.”

“Yet actual physical size has an emotional meaning. We relate everything to our own size, and our emotional response to size is controlled by the fact that men on the average are between five and six feet high... If practical considerations allowed me, cost of material, of transport, etc., I should like to work on large carvings more often than I do. The average in-between size does not disconnect an idea enough from prosaic everyday life. The very small or the very big [sculpture] takes on an added size emotion.”

“The creation of space incorporates the debate about the dialogue between dream and reality. We must use the hidden surrealistic potential of our environment to awaken basic emotions.”

“If consequences are removed from enough actions, then the very concept of human agency evaporates, life itself becomes meaningless, and is thenceforth a vacuum in which people oscillate between boredom and oblivion.”

“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.”

“Integrity in the Moment of Choice
Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.”

“Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.”

“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”