Sculpture Quotes
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A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. (Quote by - Apuleius)
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. (Quote by - Chico Hamilton)
They've added new exterior signs to the gym, sculpture studio and the math building. (Quote by - Adam Marcoux)
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public. (Quote by - Richard Serra)
And the cold marble leapt to life a God. (Quote by - Rev. Henry Hart Milman)
So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. (Quote by - James Thomson (1))
From the feet, Hercules. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. (Quote by - Michelangelo)
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. (Quote by - Steven Pinker)
I'm delighted. It's a fantastic and beautiful masterpiece of early Renaissance sculpture by the presiding genius of the 15th century. (Quote by - Timothy Potts)
No one wants to come out of the polar plunge an ice sculpture. (Quote by - Beth Peterson)
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. (Quote by - Frank Zappa)
Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
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 (Quote by - Michelangelo)
I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
The idea of the painter and the sculptor is undoubtedly that perfect and excellent example of the mind, by imitation of which imagined form all things are represented which fall under human sight. (Quote by - John Dryden)
The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Moonlight is sculpture. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object. (Quote by - Chuck Close)
I enrolled in the welding program because the welding we did in sculpture class was just enough to whet the appetite. I wanted to know how to properly work with the metal in my sculptures. (Quote by - Betty Gardner)
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. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)
Here the marble statues breathe in rows. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. (Quote by - Bayard Ruskin)
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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. (Quote by - Paul Claudel)
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. (Quote by - Moses Mendelssohn)
Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started. (Quote by - Marc Newson)
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. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape. (Quote by - James Howell)
The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair? (Quote by - Lord Byron)
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 (Quote by - Dan Rice)
In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever. (Quote by - Bruce Nauman)
Sculpture occupies the same space as your body. (Quote by - Anish Kapoor)
Henry Moore was . . . the Number 1 choice whenever a public sculpture was needed. . . . It was thought that a large Henry Moore work out front would add a final distinction. (Quote by - John Russell)
My understanding is it's the highest price ever paid for an Inuit sculpture. (Quote by - Duncan McLean)
When I saw the actual sculpture, I had quite a shock. I never imagined the play of light on the surfaces. There are subtle optical effects that you can feel but can't quite put your finger on. (Quote by - Adrian Ocneanu)
When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art. (Quote by - Richard Serra)
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
It's sculpture in the form of a garden that aspires to be art. (Quote by - Jim Duggan)
This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture. (Quote by - Malcolm Miller)
My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. (Quote by - Gloria Swanson )
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species. (Quote by - William Fleming)
In addition, there is a dedicated outdoor area for a sculpture garden that will enhance the cultural mission of the building. (Quote by - John Anderson)
When a finished work of 20thcentury sculpture is placed in an 18th-century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. (Quote by - Robert Smithson)
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock. (Quote by - Jonathan Larsen)
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. (Quote by - Bob Kail)
The jackets, pants and long coats have sculptural cuts. I must say, though, that some of the silhouettes have an egg or tulip shape that's a bit larger, inspired by haute couture. (Quote by - Mario Bandiera)
The idea of developing the grounds so there's a sculpture park where people can have conversations with artists is great. People talked with me while I was working, and that gave them a real sense of the work ethic you have to have to be an artist. Just seeing someone physically making art is really educational. (Quote by - Patrick Dougherty)
Right now, it's just trying to get the nuances of sculpture, simplicity. (Quote by - DJ Garrity)
The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows. (Quote by - Michelangelo Buonarotti)
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. (Quote by - Chuck Close)
This sculpture is, um, interesting. (Quote by - Prince Andrew)
Like the Grecian, woos the image he himself has wrought. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
A member of the public reported seeing the [truck] with the sculpture on the back on Thursday night. (Quote by - Graeme Smith)
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. (Quote by - Jimmy Carl Black)
The beauty of a plastic work is, above all, plastic; and an art always degenerates when, discarding its own peculiar means for exciting interest, it borrows those of another art. (Quote by - Henri Taine)
You don't buy a pink elephant sculpture just because it's on sale. (Quote by - Jesse Toprak)
He, like Amphion, makes those quarries leap into fair figures from a confused heap. (Quote by - Edmund Waller)
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
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 (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture. (Quote by - Isabelle Huppert)
I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage. (Quote by - Damien Hirst)
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
As you may or may not know, we're going to dedicate the sculpture to celebrate our 100th birthday during the Red Dress Run. (Quote by - Ken Ward)
There's practically not one aspect of the arts that's not included in this program. Narrative, poetry, dance, sculpture - there's something for everybody. Opera works really well for integrating the arts. (Quote by - John Bradley)
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. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
You can see the geometric designs in my sculptures - dealing with the lines and curves. (Quote by - Pearl Fryar)
This is the premiere exhibit. There's going to be about 123 works of paintings and sculpture. We're the only museum in the country getting the full show. (Quote by - Deborah Stevenson)
But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair. (Quote by - Anthony Caro)
It turns one back to really probably the most important tradition in sculpture, which is commemorating people and providing monuments of one kind or another to their lives and celebrating their return to the other world. (Quote by - Richard Hunt)
Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The sculpture is intended to be in an architectural setting where it can serve as a contrast to its surroundings and where viewers can walk around the entire piece. (Quote by - Elizabeth Childs)
I don't do sculpture in the traditional sense, (Quote by - Julie Mitchell)
It's as you might describe a painting or a sculpture. (Quote by - Ware Petznick)
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation. (Quote by - Clifton Fadiman)
It's a huge, huge, amazing sculpture we're unveiling — we're calling it our sky breaking. (Quote by - Manuel Bornia)
Using that basic unit, we developed the columns and the branches that form the sculpture. (Quote by - John Barber)
Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture. (Quote by - Issey Miyake)
Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
It doesn't have to be above freezing, but with the sun out, it'll melt the sculpture. Actually the whole block will shrink some today. (Quote by - Scott Triplett)
The plaster sculpture Kissing George Bush ... [George Bush] is a wildly passionate man who consumes my will. My love for him is deep and frightening. The more he hurts me the more I love him. ... (Quote by - Daniel Chester French)
They've got six-and-a-half hours to transform a big hunk of sand into a fabulous sculpture. They are only limited by time and physics. (Quote by - Julie Nelson)
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. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
This is a sculpture, hand-built base, with a face on it. I wanted to add cool colors for the shaded part and black-and-white stripes to the handle. (Quote by - John Thomas)
I got so I was really just sick of sculpture. (Quote by - Robert Rauschenberg)
It was Dante who called this noble art God's grandchild. (Quote by - Washington Allston)
Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump. (Quote by - Auguste Rodin)
These pieces relate to the sculptural work. Sculpture is a very physical art form for him and these are very physical, too. (Quote by - Michele Quinn)
A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. (Quote by - Frank Stella)
You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman. (Quote by - Roger Vadim)
Thy shape in every part so clean as might instruct the sculptor's art. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Milton was a genius that could cut a colossus from a rock, but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Discovered this neat sculpture! (Quote by - Doreen Cronin)
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own. (Quote by - Basil Bunting)
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. (Quote by - Constantin Brancusi)
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. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Additionally, the auction will also introduce new media like installation, sculpture and photography. (Quote by - Dinesh Vazirani)
I'm not saying my sculpture will make the team played better, or help anyone feel more pride, ... But it very well might. (Quote by - Donald Lipski)
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
We wanted the sculpture to have a link to skiing, but we also wanted to make it spiritual. (Quote by - Ken Sawyer)
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. (Quote by - Melanie Griffith)
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. (Quote by - Jacques Lipchitz)
I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet. (Quote by - Aristide Maillol)
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. (Quote by - Michelangelo Buonarroti)
We have people interested in fiber arts, quilting, sculpture -- any of the visual arts in quite a variety of media. (Quote by - Jeanne Board)
The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made difference? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. (Quote by - Robert Smithson)
The staircase is my favorite thing in the house because it brings the light through. It's very sculptural. (Quote by - Heather Faulding)
I'm a sand sculptor also- i build sculptures on large scale. (Quote by - Bill Dow)
This particular tree was so beautiful and impressive to us, like a living sculpture. We eventually decided to embark upon this project in order to show the struggle and beauty that is evident in all trees. (Quote by - Deborah Sullivan)
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
We really think people will enjoy being able to watch these students and see what goes into making a sculpture. (Quote by - Kim Galante)
The Paper Sculpture Show (Quote by - Garry Winogrand)
Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture. (Quote by - Ben Shahn)
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital. (Quote by - Anthony Caro)
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. (Quote by - Martin Puryear)
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. (Quote by - Plato)
