It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so. . . cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.
There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.