My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.
The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves.
That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture.
I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them, and I really liked having them around.
People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.