"I do not want to make a stone horse that is trying to and cannot smell the air. How lovely is the horse’s sensitive n…"

"Carving is interrelated masses conveying an emotion; a perfect relationship between the mind and the colour, light an…"

"A constructive work is an embodiment of freedom itself, and is unconsciously perceived, even by those who are conscio…"

"He [Giovanni Ardini, Italian master-carver] opened up a new vista for me of the quality of form, light, and colour co…"

"I have always been interested in oval or ovoid shapes. The first carvings were simple realistic oval forms of the hum…"

"Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to b…"

"I have been deeply interested during the last ten years in the use of colour with form. I have applied oil colour – w…"

"I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the qual…"

"A chance remark by Ardini, an Italian master carver whom I met there [in Rome], that 'marble changes colour under dif…"

"The sculptor carves because he must. He needs the concrete form of stone and wood for the expression of his idea and …"