Sculpture Quotes

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.

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

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

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

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.

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

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

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.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

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

For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.

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.

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

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.

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

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.

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.

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.

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

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.

What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

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.

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.

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.

I consider myself a 3-D philosopher. I am not a designer at all. I studied aerodynamics, I studied philosophy, I studied sculpture. High technology on one side, and on the other side, art.

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.

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

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

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.

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.

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

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.