Sculptors Quotes

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"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece. — Eddie Murphy
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean. — Barbara Kruger
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a… — Walter Gropius
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker. — Charles de Lint
The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it,… — Isadora Duncan
Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young… — Ilya Ehrenburg
This theme of bigness â€” all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. — Michael Heizer
Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing. — Vincent Price
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists… — James Keller
Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes are not forms,… — Walter Russell
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. — Rudolf Arnheim
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone. — Henry David Thoreau
Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors,… — Ralph Gibson
I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to… — Pope Dionysius
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. — Minoru Yamasaki
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far… — Dorothy Fields
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as… — Alfred de Musset

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