Quotes about Sculptures

Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade. Votes: 4

Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants. Votes: 3

Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives. Votes: 2

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. Votes: 2

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures. Votes: 2

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. Votes: 2

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. Votes: 2

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures. Votes: 2

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life. Votes: 2

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. Votes: 2

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual. Votes: 2

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them, and I really liked having them around. Votes: 2

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that. Votes: 2

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures. Votes: 2

I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby. Votes: 2

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them. Votes: 2

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale. Votes: 2

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life. Votes: 2

Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics. Votes: 2

In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects. Votes: 2

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history. Votes: 2

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. Votes: 2

Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings. Votes: 2

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back. Votes: 2

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody. Votes: 2

I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam's forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul - where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures - then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004. Votes: 2

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on. Votes: 2

Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives Votes: 0

My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face. Votes: 0

They don't send people from large corporations to hire people to make sculptures. Votes: 0

Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move. Votes: 0

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion. Votes: 0

I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy. Votes: 0

That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again. Votes: 0

The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects. Votes: 0

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural. Votes: 0

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered. Votes: 0

I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage. Votes: 0

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls. Votes: 0

I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines. Votes: 0

I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built. Votes: 0

In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games. Votes: 0

I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper. Votes: 0

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them. Votes: 0

Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear....these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry. Votes: 0

My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine metalwork. Votes: 0

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women. Votes: 0

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around. Votes: 0

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model. Votes: 0

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of. Votes: 0

My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival. Votes: 0

Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it's something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol, or maybe it's just having company to yack at. Votes: 0

All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape. Votes: 0

I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place. Votes: 0

I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine. Votes: 0

If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool. Votes: 0

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen. Votes: 0

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: 0

I would like to go to Kalimantan island in Sumatra to see the carvings and longhouse sculptures. I've also always wanted to look at the wood carvings along the Sepik River in New Guinea. Votes: 0

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves. Votes: 0

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise. Votes: 0