“You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.”

“You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.”

“Through honeycombs of stone would now be wandering the passions in their clay. There would be tears and there would be strange laughter. Fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings. And dreams, and violence, and disenchantment.”

“Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.”
Experto crede: aliquid amplius invenies in silvis, quam in libris. Ligna et lapides docebunt te, quod a magistris audire non possis.

“Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.”

“About Daniel: Two, he hates Clay
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Five, he really hates Clay.
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Nine, he really, really, hates Clay.”

“If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.”

“How can you expect a statue to offer you food, if it cannot even save itself from the rain and cold?”

“You cannot expect to keep receiving without giving something back, or paying the price for every pleasure that you wish to enjoy.”

“In my own researches and findings I have always insisted on plastic and sculptural values, and also on what I call a poetic climate. The object, whether it is a book, a bottle, or a human body, once it is visualized and expressed by means of clay, stone, or wood, ceases to be a document and becomes an animated object in stone, wood, or bronze and lives its independent life..”