Best Sculpture Lines
303 Sculpture quotes by 219 unique authors
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Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.
— John Hart
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much…
— Galileo Galilei
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There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest…
— Alan Moore
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I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy.
— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
— Andy Goldsworthy
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The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday…
— Peggy Noonan
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
— Kate Millett
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We search out the most perfect pieces of rock. It's so amazing that these formations are so perfect for climbing on. It's almost as if…
— Chris Sharma
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Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry. Pay attention to music. Pay…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human…
— Richard Bach
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The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building,…
— Alan Watts
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I always want to do music that inspires or influences another generation. You want what you create to live, be it sculpture or painting or…
— Michael Jackson
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I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.
— Trevor Paglen
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My drawings are the result of my sculpture.
— Auguste Rodin
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My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
— Gloria Swanson
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There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in the still more…
— Robert Watson-Watt
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There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you…
— Dan Rice
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It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.
— Louise Bourgeois
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
— PJ Harvey
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I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked…
— Cy Twombly
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Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.
— Richard MacDonald
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We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it…
— Richard Bach
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The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
— Louis L'Amour
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Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.
— Fernando Botero
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Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
— Herbert Spencer
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