Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

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Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

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What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

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They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

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In my heart there has never been room for envy - nor for hate, but only for the type of joy you can collect anywhere and anytime. I think what makes us truly alive is the feeling of our permanent childhood in life.

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When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

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