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
But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art.… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in… — William Fleming Copy Share Image
Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and… — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
I was given a life-size iron sculpture of a heron by a godparent. It was so poorly made, that it looked more… — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between… — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I always want to do music that inspires or influences another generation. You want what you create to live, be it sculpture… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
I have made a sculpture … you will never be finished with it – when you pass around it or see it… — Jørn Utzon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it… I should be loving sculpture! But I have… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
I played a lot of music all throughout my life, actually, but in high school I was in marching band and all… — Kirsten Lepore Copy Share Image
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
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
I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like,… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas… — Janine Antoni Copy Share Image
I think circumstance plays a big part in terms of what I do. For example, if I wasn't ever able to show… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks… — Kathryn Lindskoog Copy Share Image
The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image