Quotes About Sculpture

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.

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

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

Art is when things appear rounded.

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

Dance is moving sculpture.

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.