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But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair. — Anthony Caro
So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital. — Anthony Caro
The next step in sculpture is motion. — Alexander Calder
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled… — Alexander Calder
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition. — Alexander Calder
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It… — Alexander Calder
The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is, after all, how… — Elliott Erwitt
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are… — Nick Cave
Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making… — Marc Newson
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the… — Michelangelo
I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the… — Unknown Author
When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method… — Chuck Close
There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly… — Marsha Norman
Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that… — Hollis Frampton
As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces… — Bruno Schulz
Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting. — Barnett Newman
If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams. — Dan Dierdorf
Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural. — Michael Heizer
I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. — Andy Goldsworthy
Once I have the finished sculpture, I’ll put it out on the street or in nature or somewhere where it interacts with the environment. Really… — Mark Jenkins
These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art. — Umberto Boccioni
Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making and displaying art.… — Tom Kundig
While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all… — Paul Claudel
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an… — Jacques Lipchitz
I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or… — Chico Hamilton

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