In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece. — Eddie Murphy 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
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece. — Eddie Murphy 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like… — Yves Saint Laurent 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
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
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
Aomori Water is a sound collage piece made in 1998, in Aomori Japan. I was in a residency with other artists. A… — Phill Niblock Copy Share Image
I mopped the floor with my hairThe reason I’m so interested in taking my body to those extreme places is that that’s… — Janine Antoni Copy Share Image
“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at… — John Wijngaards Copy Share Image
I come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around. — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before. — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder. — Joseph Cornell Copy Share Image
It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I… — Augusta Savage Copy Share Image
You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it… — B. J. Chute Copy Share Image
I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and… — Julie Taymor 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