Artist Quote by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.

— Henry Moore

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

— Isamu Noguchi

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

— Isamu Noguchi

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

— Chuck Close

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

— Charlie Haden

There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a…

— Lawrence Weiner

Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all…

— Barbara Hepworth

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

— Ali Smith

The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by…

— Leo Tolstoy

I think there is an elegance and balance to design in nature that is the starting point for creating something of beauty. But I…

— Dominic Jones

There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all…

— Santiago Calatrava

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

— Sigmund Freud