Quotes from Eduardo Chillida

The hand has the richest articulation of space.

A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.

The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing.

Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.