Quotes About Sculpture

They're not poodles, they're art.

Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.

I apprehend light - I make events that shape or contain light.

You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is both, at the same time.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

With the point of his knife he made two round eyes, a three-cornered nose, and a mouth shaped like a new moon.

The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.

In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.

Following the lead of Paul Cézanne and the Cubists, Greenberg saw that the distinctive feature of painting is its flatness; therefore, he thought that painting should purge itself of all illusions of depth and turn that concern over to sculpture.

Behind the toilet, a sculpture of a penis urinated into a bowl after you flushed. Too much cock.

The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry. This is an enormous task. But every stroke in these sculptures is from my hands.

This divorce of art from technology is completely unnatural. It's just that it's gone on so long you have to be an archeologist to find out where the two separated. Rotisserie assembly is actually a long-lost branch of sculpture, so divorced from its roots by centuries of intellectual wrong turns that just to associate the two sounds ludicrous." They're

In the midst of a hive of customers and clerks, a small boy with blond hair neatly parted on one side stares up into the face of a bronze sculpture. It is Cuchulainn himself---the warrior light. The Hound of Coolan lashed to a boulder with spear drawn. But The Hound is leaning to one side and dying in a public hall of the Dublin Post Office.

That animated, Hellenistic sculpture with the green eyes...

Long-established totalitarian governments fear any kind of free expression. A sculpture can be a manifesto, a manuscripted adventure can double as a cry for rebellion.

Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

Remember what Michelangelo said about the sculpture being inside the stone - it was there from the beginning, and his job was the bring it out. Violet mother