Sculptors Quotes
43 quotes by 36 authors
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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
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"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
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All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.
— Eddie Murphy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
— Michael Heizer
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Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.
— Vincent Price
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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
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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
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Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.
— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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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
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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
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I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
— Minoru Yamasaki
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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
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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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