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

    Art   Writing   Keys  
  • 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.

    People   Trying   Needs  
  • 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.

  • The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

    Artist   Class   Together  
  • I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)

  • 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.

    Voice   Space   Giving  
    Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.
  • I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

    Bruce Chatwin (1997). “Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989”, p.14, Penguin
  • The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.93, Wildside Press LLC
  • 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.

    Art   Hands   Sculpture  
  • I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.

  • 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.

  • There are two devices which can help the sculptor to judge his work: one is not to see it for a while. The other... is to look at his work through spectacles which will change its color and magnify or diminish it, so as to disguise it somehow to his eye, and make it look as though it were the work of another.

    Eye   Color   Two  
  • The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.

    Art   Drama   Fall  
    George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”
  • 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.

    Light   Darkness   Shadow  
    John Ruskin (1866). “The seven lamps of architecture”, p.142
  • 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

  • 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.

  • Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

    Louise Bourgeois, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (1999). “Louise Bourgeois: memoria y arquitectura : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 16 de noviembre de 1999-14 de febrero del 2000”, Actar-D
  • Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

    Block   Sculpture   Way  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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.

    William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.230
  • 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.

    Lying   Maturity   People  
  • 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.

    Art   School   Design  
  • Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.

  • Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into visible form. ... It must be the reflection of the artist who creates it and of the era in which he lives, not an echo or a memory of other days and other ways.

    Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”
  • When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

    Art   Grief   Years  
  • They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

    Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.112, University of Illinois Press
  • When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.

    Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
  • The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.

    "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.
  • She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.

    Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.204, Simon and Schuster
  • The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.

    Music   Art   Quality  
  • The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.83
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