.. My materials often dictate my change of aims, and I choose to work in a different material much as a man may suddenly feel an appetite for a change of diet. After a steady diet of moulding plaster models for bronzes, I enjoy returning to a discipline of carving stone or wood, and the wood or the stone Inevitably suggests to me a shift of principles or of aims.

As quoted in: 'The Work of Zadkine' (excerpt), Ionel Jianou, 1964; for the Zadkine Research Center