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
Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object? — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. — Michael Heizer 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
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
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor. — Louise Bourgeois 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
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his… — William Butler Yeats 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
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
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
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
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
Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away… — Confucius Copy Share Image
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those… — Wilfred Trotter 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
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
As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best… — Auguste Rodin 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
In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see,… — Pope Dionysius 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
Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor. — Henri Matisse 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
Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before. — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes. — Alexander Rodchenko 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
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
Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself… — John French Sloan 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
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In… — William James 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