Eduardo Chillida Quotations

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

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

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

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.

The hand has the richest articulation of space.

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

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

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

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

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

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

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

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.

No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.

A single wave is nothing, it does not interest me. But after this wave comes another, and then yet another.

The conditions you need to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same conditions you need to be a good sculptor. You must have a very good connection, in both professions, with time and space.