Sculptor Quotes
104 Sculptor quotes by 87 unique authors
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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor
— Edvard Munch
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Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without…
— Richard Bach
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The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still…
— Auguste Rodin
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I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form
— Anish Kapoor
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Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it…
— Aristide Maillol
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An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
— Edwin Booth
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Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time…
— Alexis Carrel
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I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of…
— Unknown Author
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When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of…
— Simon McBurney
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There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.
— Cristobal Balenciaga
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I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a…
— Fernando Botero
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Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off the unneeded pieces.…
— Steve Pavlina
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But…
— Jerry Bridges
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When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole hippy thing' in tandem with…
— Unknown Author
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In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of…
— Bruce Lee
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The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'
— Richard Serra
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The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good cook follows the…
— Sterling W Sill
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The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the…
— John French Sloan
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Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood,…
— Andreas Feininger
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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good…
— Aristotle
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O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who Wrote These Sculptor Quotes
87 authors contributed a total of 104 Sculptor Quotes, led by these top contributors: