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Quotes About Sculptures

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.
~ Andy Warhol
'Lemonade' is made out of bubbling, fizzing, popping, and 'Hard' is made from metal and latex - they are sort of sculptures in this way. I synthesize all sounds except for vocals using raw waveforms and different synthesis methods as opposed to using samples.
~ Sophie
Flattery isn't the right word for his portrait. It's empathy—the same quality in the sculptures that surround them. The ancient artists were devotees above all else. Without love of their subject, they'd just be cutting stone; their adoration is what brings it to life.
~ Abraham Verghese
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
~ Kate Millett
Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.
~ George Segal
I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.
~ Florentijn Hofman
I hate all those celebrity sculptures like Tussauds, where everyone is dressed in spangly suits and they are all smiling.
~ Bill Bailey
Renouncers tended to encourage a virulent loathing and fear of women, while worldly Hindus celebrated women in their sculptures, their poetry, and, sometimes, real life.
~ Wendy Doniger
Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.
~ Virginia Postrel
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
~ Kim Cattrall
I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.
~ Janet Echelman
There are more angel sculptures, figurines, and paintings here than at a Vatican garage sale.
~ Richard Kadrey
What a boon to live on the water! Such delicious shades and hues! This is a template worthy of the greatest painters. The textures of sand and stone could inspire incomparable sculptures, and the sounds - the steady lapping of the waves, the sweet chirping of the birds, make this a sanctuary.
~ Adriana Trigiani
In the famous temple sculptures of Khajuraho, one finds beautiful women disrobing themselves on the excuse that a scorpion is climbing up their thighs.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.
~ Jerry Saltz
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
~ Steven Wright
One project I am pretty excited about is 'Autonomy Cube.' These are basically minimalist sculptures that create a free and open Wi-Fi network wherever you install them, and they are routed over Tor, which basically anonymizes the traffic of everybody using it.
~ Trevor Paglen
My great-grandparents have some beautiful sculptures which have come down the generations. They are priceless and whenever I look at them, I am inspired.
~ Ananya Birla
I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby.
~ Tracey Emin
That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
~ Florentijn Hofman
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
~ Melina Mercouri
I bought two sculptures of two baboons called Lord and Lady Muck on an antique piece of furniture from an art exhibition, and it was quite expensive. It was very expensive, actually - way too expensive.
~ Noel Fielding
Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
~ Andy Goldsworthy