Sculptors Quotes

Sculptors Quote of the day

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

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

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

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

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

A car designer is really a sculptor.

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.

Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.

Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

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

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

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.

Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?

Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice.

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.