Great Throughts Treasury

"When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along."

"The pleasure of making things beautiful or useful involves your feelings as well as your thinking. When your original sketch evolves into a tangible, three-dimensional object, your heart is anxiously following the process of your work. And the love involved in making it is conveyed to those for whom you made it."

"Everything I do is a creation of my hands whether it is made in wood, plaster, or clay."

"We are actually concerned with the playful search for beauty."

"How can you, without drying up, make things with the same pleasure, as a gift to others, for so long?"