Best Sculpture Sayings

303 Sculpture quotes by 219 unique authors

When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations… — Sol LeWitt
A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. — Frank Stella
By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created. — Piet Mondrian
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by… — Giorgio Vasari
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding. — Michelangelo
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. — Santiago Calatrava
All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully… — Alberto Giacometti
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances, they should fall… — Joseph Kastein
You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that… — Owen Wilson
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past,… — Robert Smithson
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold
Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the same as a… — Tom Ford
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking… — Mavis Gallant
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and… — Dmitri Shostakovich
When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a painter is painting,… — Julia Margaret Cameron
Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture. — Issey Miyake
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work… — Clement Greenberg
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.... — Paul Cezanne
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. — Martin Puryear
I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like… — Alan Moore
The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to… — Robert Bly
Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but… — Henry Moore
All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes… — Henry Moore
Where did I learn to understand sculpture? In the woods by looking at the trees, along roads by observing the formation of clouds, in the… — Auguste Rodin

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