Quotes About Sculpture

No sculpture, no carving or bas-relief, almost no painting or drawing—the interiors are completely bare. What we do see are these huge mounds—and textiles.

Blood covered his face and dirt had gummed to it, so that his visage was ocher in color and appeared like a clay sculpture illustrating some earlier phase of mankind when facial features were yet provisional.

The competition could offer a free pass from the risk of having their heads added to the PM's decorative sculpture—or skullpture?—at Marble Arch. Whatever else you could say about His Dread Majesty, he didn't generally execute his servants unless they really fucked up.

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

Ensconced in the attic, she was producing somewhat lopsided and slippery pieces of sculpture out of an acrid-smelling yellow soap and appearing in a flowered smock and an artistic trance at mealtimes.

Magic lives in curves, not angles.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.

But their chauffeur knew exactly where they were, and how much distance was required to bring the Benz to a halt. With the expertise of a Hollywood stunt driver, the butler wrenched the wheel and nailed the brakes, bringing them to a park between a GTO Trez had an immediate hard-on for…and a Hummer that looked like an abstract sculpture rather than anything that was drivable. "Maybe he made his mistakes on that one," Trez said dryly.

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

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like a flat crust with no plants or insects, a perfect outdoor gallery for monumental interactive sculpture and architecture.

I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture.

The Barbara Hepworth museum in St. Ives is fascinating. Her achievements were astonishing.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.

Suddenly, I can't move. I can't speak. I am set in stone, but it's a glorious chiseled sort of stone.

oh, good, Pestilence is free," said Karou, heading towards the sculpture. Massive emperor and horse both wore gas masks, like every other statue in the place, and it had always put Karou in mind of the first horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence, sowing plaque with one outstretched arm.

You cannot reduce the situation to worm jokes, Will. This is Gabriel and Gideon's father we're discussing." "We're not just discussing him; we're chasing him through an ornamental sculpture garden because he's turned into a worm.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. In modern sculpture, picture, and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous; the artist works here and there, and at all points, adding and adding, instead of unfolding the unit of his thought.

images of the Madonna and the Christ Child carved in ivory and exported to Europe.

Piazza del Campidoglio