What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“The flesh is the clay of the gods. Only the chosen can be sculptors.” — Michael West 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
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
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the… — Sara Genn 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
We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice. — Sheena Iyengar 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
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and… — Alexander Rodchenko 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
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
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I never photograph anything I don't believe in. If I love working with death, it's because even in death I find this… — Joel-Peter Witkin 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
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
If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,… — James Keller Copy Share Image
All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father… — Barbara Hepworth 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
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
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
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
“These sculptors consituteted a new movement, he claimed. Not for them the bald abstraction of their predecessors. Their creations were rooted in… — Mark Mills Copy Share Image
Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing. — Al Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to… — Larry Clark 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
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
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
When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger… — Don DeLillo 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
![“The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.” quote by Jacques-Louis David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0e9/jacques-louis-david-55514_art_the-artist-must-be-a-philosopher-socrate_583995.jpg)
