“The flesh is the clay of the gods. Only the chosen can be sculptors.” — Michael West Copy Share Image
Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair? — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object? — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece. — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly.… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
I often envy my friends who are visual artists. Visual artists have other things to work with. Other media. I envy my… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see,… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said,… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art… — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we… — Grace Gummer Copy Share Image
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone. — William James Copy Share Image
When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface, — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
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