Sculpture Quotes

303 Sculpture quotes by 219 unique authors

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking. — Michelangelo
The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow. — Hans Arp
Where the material ends, art begins. — Unknown Author
I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet. — Aristide Maillol
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the… — Helen Fisher
But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which… — John Calvin
An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is… — Jim Rohn
A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what… — Wynn Bullock
The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the… — Swami Vivekananda
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation — Clifton Fadiman
Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the… — Isabelle Huppert
If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the… — Richard Serra
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even… — Richard Serra
The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture… — Richard Serra
I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to… — Andrew Stanton
Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no one can fail… — Unknown Author
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
Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture. — Isamu Noguchi
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my… — Yayoi Kusama
Man is really not freeing many aspects. He is dependent on his social circumstances, but he is free in his thinking, and here is the… — Joseph Beuys
I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed by the feeling… — Ana Mendieta
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow… — Helen Keller
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of… — Nicholas D. Kristof

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