Best Sculpture Qoutes
303 Sculpture quotes by 219 unique authors
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In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under…
— Peter Hedges
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Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to…
— Frank Gehry
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There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Moonlight is sculpture.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
— Damien Hirst
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Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
— Anish Kapoor
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I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like…
— Alicia Keys
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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
— Paul Klee
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We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could,…
— Melina Mercouri
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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
— Michelangelo
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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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I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.
— Conor Oberst
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been…
— Camille Paglia
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
— Pablo Picasso
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
— Pablo Picasso
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual…
— Steven Pinker
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
— Ezra Pound
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Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
— Auguste Rodin
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Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings…
— Jerry Saltz
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I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting,…
— Jerry Saltz
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All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon…
— Jerry Saltz
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Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic…
— Jerry Saltz
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You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.
— William Shatner
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Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
— Gertrude Stein
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