Best Sculptors Quotes
43 Sculptors quotes by 36 unique authors
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock…
— John Dryden
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The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.
— Brian Greene
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The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan…
— Khaled Hosseini
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What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.
— Marcel Marceau
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The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye…
— Ezra Pound
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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this…
— Carl Sandburg
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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of…
— Twyla Tharp
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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and…
— Anais Nin
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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
— Henry David Thoreau
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They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to…
— Paulo Coelho
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There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
— Aesop
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We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice.
— Sheena Iyengar
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Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?
— Rainbow Rowell
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Ah." He set down his backpack and pulled out their notebook. "You're working on your final project?" "Indirectly," Cath said. "What does that mean?" "Have…
— Rainbow Rowell
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The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors…
— Michael Heizer
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I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of…
— Donald Sinden
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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.
— Eddie Murphy
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