Sculptors Quotes

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

— Pope Pius IX

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

— Joseph Addison

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

— William Butler Yeats

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

I'm an ice sculptor. Last night I made a cube.

— Mitch Hedberg

Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.

— David Altmejd

It doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.

— Duane Hanson

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

— Cate Blanchett

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

— Marcel Marceau

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

I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said,…

— Richard Serra

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface,

— Donald Judd

In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

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

Coming up, at 89 years old, acclaimed sculptor Gerson Frank was finally able to marry his longtime partner, Bill. Their relationship has…

— Jennifer Lopez

Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer…

— Isadora Duncan

In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the…

— Sergei Prokofiev

The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist…

— Joan D. Chittister

“We are our own sculptors...Who can deny that passion and unkind thoughts show on the lines and expressions of our faces...young people…

— Joshua Zeitz

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

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

not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor…

— Freya Stark

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring…

— Orison Swett Marden

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

Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue…

— Plotinus

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The…

— Walter Gropius

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

For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what…

— Mike Leigh

My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I…

— Jason Silva

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

I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors…

— Alfred de Musset

“These sculptors consituteted a new movement, he claimed. Not for them the bald abstraction of their predecessors. Their creations were rooted in…

— Mark Mills

Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont…

— Michael Jackson

“Poets represent love as sculptors design beauty, as musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they…

— Alfred De Musset

“Mothers are artists, in their way, wouldn’t you say? They’re like symphony conductors of entire lives. They’re painters or sculptors. And not…

— Louie Anderson

“The flesh is the clay of the gods. Only the chosen can be sculptors.”

— Michael West