Abstract Quote by Barbara Hepworth

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I wanted to dissolve into the floor, mixing myself with the hard stone. A stone had a single purpose: to be. No complicated promises,…

— Maria V. Snyder

One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel.…

— Georges Clemenceau

Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.

— Jimi Hendrix

Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site.…

— Aleksandra Mir

Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

— Fernando Botero

'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it…

— Ellen Forney

The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite of ornamental.…

— Jon Landau

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

— Thomas Merton

One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs.

— Mechthild of Magdeburg

A stone that looks satisfied with its position reflects the sense of ease the waller felt when placing it there.

— Dan Snow

It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn't…

— Ruth Asawa