Best Sculptor Sayings

104 Sculptor quotes by 87 unique authors

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people. — Kathleen Quinlan
In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue… — Stuart Dybek
I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify. — Leonard Slatkin
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as… — Minoru Yamasaki
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to… — Plotinus
The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life,… — Joan D. Chittister
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk — William Butler Yeats
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. — John Ruskin
The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of… — John Ruskin
As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays… — Auguste Rodin
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to… — Pope John Paul II
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the… — Barbara Hepworth
The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of… — Herbert Read
The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling… — Jack White
I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best… — Michael Heizer
The chisel is the pen of the sculptor. — Pope Pius IX
A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who… — Yves Saint Laurent
A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and… — Karen Armstrong
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the… — Paul Engle
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of… — Elbert Hubbard
Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving. — Henri Matisse
I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence. — Ewan McGregor
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. — Michelangelo
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the… — Michelangelo

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