"I prefer Mexican to Mayan sculpture. Mexican stone sculptures have largeness of scale & a grim, sublime, austerity, a…"

"The distinguishing quality of most primitive art is the intense vitality which it possesses, because it has been made…"

"This is what the sculptor must do. He must strive continually to think of, and use, form in its full spatial complete…"

"I was in the trenches in the last war [1914 – 1918], & so all the more don’t want to shoot or be shot at, again.. .Al…"

"Since the Gothic, European sculpture had become overgrown with moss, weeds – all sorts of surface excrescences which …"

"I have always paid great attention to natural forms, such as bones, shells, and pebbles, etc. Sometimes for several y…"

"The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other, making it imme…"

"Yet actual physical size has an emotional meaning. We relate everything to our own size, and our emotional response t…"

"Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a …"

"The Negroes.. ..their unique claim for admiration is their power to produce form completely in the round.. .Negro scu…"