「私にとって独創とは、作家が素材と直に触れ合うことだ。そして大地と、大地に触れることこそが、いまという時代の人工性と、工業製品への依存から作家を解き放つ。」
"For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact to it which will free him of the artificiality of the present and his dependence on industrial products."
出典: 『A Sculptor's World』(1968)