When you are at the bottom you find beauty in such little things and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood there is nothing that can bring me down.

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

It has taken me years of struggle hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple beautiful sentence.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.