Quotes About Sculpture

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around.

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Art brings out the grand lines of nature.

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

The mind is the chisel, matter is the stone and life is the sculpture. Make sure you use your chisel wisely

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess.

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

Her intimate, edgy sculpture was grounded in female experience, including relationships, giving birth and motherhood.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

a pretty girl, who naked is is worth a million statues

His straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled, and yet with the soft and sinuous curves of a Greek god, told at a glance the wondrous combination of enormous strength with suppleness and speed.

Venus herself graced their marriage with her presence, but what happened after that we do not know, except that Pygmalion named the maiden Galatea, and that their son, Paphos, gave his name to Venus' favorite city.

El resultado es una forma parecida al tronco de un árbol envuelta en una capa, de la que surge una gran cabeza con un cuello recio como el de un toro.

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

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

I paint with shapes.

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

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.