The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters,… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Sex divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from himself, drags him down to the hall of mirrors… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all sorts of surface excrescences which completely concealed shape. It… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art.… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building:… — Jonathan Larson Copy Share Image
“I can't remember the name of the piece, or the artist. Maybe it wasn't even an artwork. Why must I automatically assume… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I want to strip my work of 'effects' until it stands monolithic, based on reality and yet transcending it. It must flow… — Shiko Munakata Copy Share Image
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
I got killed against Morimoto. I brought out white plates with food; I thought that was really nice. He brings out sculptures… — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
I love reality TV and everything, and it's something that I truly love to do, and I love the outcome of it;… — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything… — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image