Quotes About Sculpture

Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction.

I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.

I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawing.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Arte efímero es la música pues se dan en el tiempo: se va deshaciendo a medida que se va haciendo. La pintura y la escultura, en cambio, ahí quedan, ahí están, porque se dan en el espacio. Su problema es que si alguien no las mira, no existen. ¿Y el sexo? Se da en el espíritu y en la carne proyectandose desde aquí hasta el Más Allá, hasta donde dé.

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 I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master's in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold.

What is more hilarious than carved marble pubic hair? Thank you. Don't mention it.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

Compared to the routine, more coarse, carving of the Apostles and Elders, the monstrous rout seems to have been produced by a more expert sculptor, suggesting a scale of value that did not elevate the Divine archetype over the debased animal.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.

it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and sculpture, among the many other such creative means, that helped articulate the sufferings of [these] people that were heard around the globe.

She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.

Cyrion in stone was to be a fleeting concept, not a permanent condition.

Nuestra verdad posible tiene que ser invención, es decir escritura, literatura, pintura, escultura, agricultura, piscicultura, todas las turas de este mundo. Los valores, turas, la santidad, una tura, la sociedad, una tura, el amor, pura tura, la belleza, tura de turas.

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Bertrand Russell wrote about the beauty of mathematical science: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

The Romans learn Art from their Greek slaves, but they learn reluctantly. They are almost Modern in their reluctance; they are almost ready to say that a killing machine is beautiful if it works. They are not quite that modern, and they let Greek craftsmen conceal the brutal militarism with Architecture, Sculpture and Painting. They learn Aesthetics, that strange ability to see in blood gushing from a wound only the beauty of the shape and color.