I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.
Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.
I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.