Quotes about Sculpture

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. Votes: 8

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump. Votes: 8

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Votes: 7

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. Votes: 6

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. Votes: 6

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. Votes: 6

I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function. Votes: 6

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know. Votes: 6

Moonlight is sculpture. Votes: 4

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet. Votes: 4

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. Votes: 4

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality. Votes: 4

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created. Votes: 4

I love looking at sculpture, but there's some sort of spell that's broken with it. Votes: 4

She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense. Votes: 4

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done. Votes: 4

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural. Votes: 4

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation Votes: 4

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object. Votes: 4

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. Votes: 4

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. Votes: 4

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. Votes: 4

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. Votes: 4

Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale. Votes: 4

Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their own affairs; and she was alone, and empty and unbelieving again. Votes: 4

In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art. Votes: 4

If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture. Votes: 4

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body. Votes: 3

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting. Votes: 3

Creating Your Character is Like an Artist Creating a Sculpture Votes: 3

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. Votes: 3

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding. Votes: 3

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air. Votes: 3

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting. Votes: 3

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. Votes: 3

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live. Votes: 3

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds. Votes: 3

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch. Votes: 3

Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist. Votes: 3

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy. Votes: 3

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself. Votes: 3

Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings. Votes: 3

Chairs are like sculpture. Votes: 2

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. Votes: 2

The skull is nature's sculpture. Votes: 2

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. Votes: 2

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. Votes: 2

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture. Votes: 2

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture. Votes: 2

I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time. Votes: 2

6 Times' is an attempt to reinvestigate the social responsibility of sculpture. The body in question is a particular body, but it doesn't really matter whose it is. Votes: 2

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe. Votes: 2

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master. Votes: 2

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion. Votes: 2

The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal. Votes: 2

I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand. Votes: 2

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. Votes: 2

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy. Votes: 2

One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make anything that's been done so far become illogical in any way, so you always want to try to connect when you're doing a series of films that has a continuous character. Votes: 2

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. Votes: 2

Venice is all sea and sculpture ... Votes: 0

The next step in sculpture is motion. Votes: 0

My drawings are the result of my sculpture. Votes: 0

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really. Votes: 0

A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking. Votes: 0

Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo. Votes: 0

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it? Votes: 0

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. Votes: 0

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form. Votes: 0

Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love. Votes: 0

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking. Votes: 0

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture. Votes: 0

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form. Votes: 0

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white. Votes: 0

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. Votes: 0

For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture. Votes: 0

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture. Votes: 0

If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything, Votes: 0

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.... Votes: 0

Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment. Votes: 0

You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock. Votes: 0

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is. Votes: 0

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. Votes: 0

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. Votes: 0

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation. Votes: 0

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. Votes: 0

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture. Votes: 0

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in. Votes: 0

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. Votes: 0

A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it. Votes: 0

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Votes: 0

If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams. Votes: 0

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow. Votes: 0

Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose. Votes: 0

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence. Votes: 0

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. Votes: 0

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture. Votes: 0

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance. Votes: 0

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. Votes: 0

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. Votes: 0

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair. Votes: 0

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think? Votes: 0

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital. Votes: 0

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself. Votes: 0

My sculpture thrives in the context of the city, interacting with people in the course of their daily lives. Votes: 0

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art. Votes: 0

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture. Votes: 0

The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work Votes: 0

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman. Votes: 0

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist. Votes: 0

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. Votes: 0

The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. Votes: 0

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture. Votes: 0

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also. Votes: 0

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks. Votes: 0

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share. Votes: 0

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture. Votes: 0

If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy... Votes: 0

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. Votes: 0

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it. Votes: 0

It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening. Votes: 0

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition. Votes: 0

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard. Votes: 0

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion. Votes: 0

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts. Votes: 0

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. Votes: 0

To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched. Votes: 0

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. Votes: 0

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express. Votes: 0

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words. Votes: 0

She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence. Votes: 0

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. Votes: 0

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed, but woke the next morningelated for another try. Votes: 0

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain Votes: 0

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment. Votes: 0

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction. Votes: 0

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination. Votes: 0

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction. Votes: 0

When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color. Votes: 0

Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest. Votes: 0

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway. Votes: 0

There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift. Votes: 0

I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way. Votes: 0

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture. Votes: 0

Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work. Votes: 0

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry. Votes: 0

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture. Votes: 0

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over. Votes: 0

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing. Votes: 0

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material. Votes: 0

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive. Votes: 0

There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people. Votes: 0

Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice. Votes: 0

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise. Votes: 0

The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today. Votes: 0

Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture. Votes: 0

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along. Votes: 0

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing. Votes: 0

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through Votes: 0

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment. Votes: 0

In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture. Votes: 0

I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque. Votes: 0

I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking. Votes: 0

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away. 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

I don't want to make plop art "” sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture. Votes: 0

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists. Votes: 0

Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture. Votes: 0

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides. Votes: 0

I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with sculpture I have someone I can work with. Votes: 0

Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also. Votes: 0

I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting or sculpture; it was everything mixed together. Votes: 0

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. Votes: 0

Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb. Votes: 0

The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo. Votes: 0

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye. Votes: 0

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality. Votes: 0

Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly a sculpture, chiseled and polished by our food choices. Votes: 0

I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb. Votes: 0

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest. Votes: 0

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise. Votes: 0

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real. Votes: 0

He turns the key.Presto!It opens this book of odd taleswhich transform the Brothers Grimm.Transform?As if an enlarged paper clipcould be a piece of sculpture.(And it could.) Votes: 0

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing. Votes: 0

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole. Votes: 0

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. Votes: 0

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything have one primary concern - mankind. Votes: 0

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind. Votes: 0

Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen. Votes: 0

I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good. Votes: 0

While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies. Votes: 0

I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school. Votes: 0

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation. Votes: 0

I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture. Votes: 0

I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form. Votes: 0

How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things? Votes: 0

A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand. Votes: 0

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature. Votes: 0

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. Votes: 0

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay. Votes: 0

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses. Votes: 0

Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work. Votes: 0

First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture. Votes: 0

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised. Votes: 0

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art. Votes: 0

And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own. Votes: 0

When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around. Votes: 0

I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school. Votes: 0

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy. Votes: 0

She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips. Votes: 0

Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the studio by studying the model, everywhere except in the schools. Votes: 0

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about. Votes: 0

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed. Votes: 0

If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words. Votes: 0

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth Votes: 0

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract. Votes: 0