Quotes about Sculptor

We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor. Votes: 4

We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor Votes: 3

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving. Votes: 2

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. Votes: 2

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us. Votes: 2

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. Votes: 2

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify. Votes: 2

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence. Votes: 2

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor. Votes: 2

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor. Votes: 2

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. Votes: 2

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. Votes: 2

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form. Votes: 2

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. Votes: 2

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. Votes: 2

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. Votes: 2

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone. Votes: 2

A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades. Votes: 2

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. Votes: 2

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material. Votes: 2

There's always constantly interesting things to do, and who knows, maybe I will be a good sculptor. I haven't decided what I am going to do next, but I am not going to quit just because I did something interesting. Votes: 2

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. Votes: 2

Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. He's built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it. Votes: 2

I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone. Votes: 2

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted. Votes: 2

I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years. Votes: 2

I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done a lot of different things and it all comes from experiences that you have in your life, in your creative environment. They all help - I don't even know if they help; maybe they make it worse but they all influence each other, for sure. Votes: 2

A car designer is really a sculptor. Votes: 0

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor. Votes: 0

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor. Votes: 0

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. Votes: 0

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me. Votes: 0

I'm an ice sculptor. Last night I made a cube. Votes: 0

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor. Votes: 0

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk Votes: 0

A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material. Votes: 0

Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden. Votes: 0

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain. Votes: 0

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life. Votes: 0

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. Votes: 0

You are the sculptor of your success. Chisel and carve yourself into excellence. Votes: 0

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop. Votes: 0

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things. Votes: 0

Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing. Votes: 0

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people. Votes: 0

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain. Votes: 0

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor. Votes: 0

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul. Votes: 0

Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair? Votes: 0

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. Votes: 0

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage. Votes: 0

As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator. Votes: 0

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things. Votes: 0

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor Votes: 0

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor Votes: 0

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing. Votes: 0

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life. Votes: 0

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone. Votes: 0

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor. Votes: 0

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. Votes: 0

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius. Votes: 0

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.) Votes: 0

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams. Votes: 0

What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated? Votes: 0

I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns. Votes: 0

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art. Votes: 0

As a sculptor, I prefer busts. As a lover of women, I prefer busts. And as a football enthusiast, I prefer Robert Griffin III. Votes: 0

Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone. Votes: 0

My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything. Votes: 0

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form Votes: 0

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance. Votes: 0

My dad's great. He's an amazing artist. A sculptor. He's wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything. Votes: 0

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic. Votes: 0

Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting. Votes: 0

I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.' Votes: 0

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not. Votes: 0

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us. Votes: 0

You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master. Votes: 0

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work. Votes: 0

The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others. Votes: 0

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm. Votes: 0

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better. Votes: 0

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs. Votes: 0

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing. Votes: 0

The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries. Votes: 0

If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture. Votes: 0

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says. Votes: 0

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction. Votes: 0

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty. Votes: 0

Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor. Votes: 0

This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there’s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything. Votes: 0

The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio. Votes: 0

A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself. Votes: 0

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. Votes: 0

The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain. Votes: 0

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk Votes: 0

I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic. Votes: 0

A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. Votes: 0

A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish. Votes: 0

It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it. Votes: 0