Sculpture Quotes

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

— Auguste Rodin

Chairs are like sculpture.

— Robert Wilson

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

— Alexander Pope

The next step in sculpture is motion.

— Alexander Calder

The skull is nature's sculpture.

— David Bailey

Moonlight is sculpture.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

— Constantin Brancusi

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Santiago Calatrava

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

— Robert Smithson

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“sculpture for their desks, and mass-market consumers were not eager to spend twice what”

— Walter Isaacson

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

— Apuleius

You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.

— Eran Creevy

“You are God's chisel; it is you He uses to create masterpieces.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

— Walter Savage Landor

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no…

— Urs Fischer

Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our…

— Anthony Caro

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

— Roy Blount, Jr

Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the…

— Sara Genn

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

— Santiago Calatrava

The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both…

— Eduardo Chillida

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all…

— Janet Echelman

First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want,…

— Wayne White

Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of…

— Auguste Rodin

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it.…

— John Ruskin

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable…

— Marsha Norman

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it…

— Kameron Hurley

When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic…

— Ryan McGinley

Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary…

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a…

— Wayne White

One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make…

— Tobin Bell

Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making…

— Tom Kundig

I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful…

— Krist Novoselic

“Michelangelo said the best way to judge the essential elements of a sculpture is to throw it down a hill and the…

— Everwood

The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one…

— John Green

All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father…

— Barbara Hepworth

It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I…

— William S. Burroughs

What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these…

— Nick Cave