Sculpture Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

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

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

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

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

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.

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

When you slow down enough to sculpt, you discover all kinds of things you never noticed before.

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.

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

Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives

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

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

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

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.

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

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

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.

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

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

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

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

The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.

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

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

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

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.