Block Quote by Carl Andre

The best way to carve is not to split.

— Laozi

I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal,…

— Erykah Badu

A piece of sculpture has to be more than a block of wood.

— Gutzon Borglum

I have to carve my own way. Build. It takes time.

— Slowthai

I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay…

— Erykah Badu

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way…

— Urs Fischer

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

— Peter Weir

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

— Michelangelo

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

— Martin Puryear

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

— Ruth Asawa

Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of…

— Aristide Maillol

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away…

— Michelangelo