Quotes About Sculpture

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

In a riot and a sculpture, [such] tactical acts of re-appropriation disrupt the circulation of bodies and information within a given terrain, if only for a moment.

Futurist sculpture creates ideal new forms by using motion to break down the barrier between an object and its surroundings. To join the object's exterior plastic infinity to its interior plastic infinity.

Michelangelo leaned back, but his breath stayed warm on Vincent's cheek and Vincent didn't pull away.

The cast had to come off before she could attempt a sculpture of her prey.

Misschien acteer ik, zegt ze, omdat wij al zoveel mogelijkheden in de steen hebben moeten achterlaten. Maar dat is nu juist het verschil tussen het beeld en de beeldhouwer, roep ik haar na, de een moet wachten tot iemand iets in hem ziet, de ander is vrij zichzelf vorm te geven.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

A piece of sculpture has to be more than a block of wood.

I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

The hole connects one side to the other, making it immediately more three-dimensional. A hole can itself have as much shape-meaning as a solid mass.

Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done.

The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space -- sculpture and painting.

Contam cu disperare pe eternitatea pitrei, pe fidelitatea bronzului în dorinÈ›a de a perpetua un corp perisabil, ori deja distrus, insistând totodat? ca marmura, uns? zilnic cu un amestec de ulei È™i acizi, s? prind? fineÈ›e È™i aproape moliciunea c?rnii tinere.

The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

Fischbein stood in front of Zouch with his hands on his hips. He had a grey face, full of folds and swellings of loose flesh, like a piece of bad realistic sculpture.

The end of strife and conflict of all kinds had also meant the virtual end of creative art. There were myriads of performers, amateur and professional, yet there had been no really outstanding new works of literature, music, painting, or sculpture for a generation. The world was still living on the glories of a past that could never return.

Your life is a sculpture, every day chip away.