Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.