Quotes About Sculpting

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

Salsa is a Latin dance and it's great for stamina and cardio. There's a lot of movement in the core area and so I feel like it's awesome for sculpting your obliques and your back and just getting that area moving in general.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.

it is the emptiness of the bowl that creates the bowl

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed — it is a process of elimination.

And I really loved sculpting. My brother and I would do full human figures with clay and Plasticine—liver, intestines, the heart—fill them with ketchup and throw them from the roof. So I was an artistic but very morbid kid.

Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

I can't sculpt. But if I were a sculptor, as you start to get something that actually looks like what you want, then it starts to be fun. That's the way I find writing.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

What immense satisfaction it must be to fashion a story like [Maupassant's]! One must say 'fashion' because it is not merely writing, but massing and cutting away like a sculptor, chiseling lean and clear. And to put one's work confidently in the crucible of Time; to know that in six perfect pages is the finest form of one's idea: This satisfaction is the only true reward of the artist, and this his highest possible joy on Earth.

He tried. He really did. For a good ninety seconds he molded the clay as best he could. His final effort came out resembling a pear.

It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.

With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."

The first time I made a mold of my vampire teeth, I took pictures of that.

I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive.

I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.