Best Sculpture Thoughts
303 Sculpture quotes by 219 unique authors
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Creating Your Character is Like an Artist Creating a Sculpture
— Jim Rohn
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In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate…
— Walter Gropius
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Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much…
— Moses Mendelssohn
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In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then…
— Bruce Nauman
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I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.
— Robert Rauschenberg
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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
— Robert Smithson
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I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting or sculpture; it…
— Thomas McDonell
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You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
— Roger Vadim
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I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for…
— Jimmy Carl Black
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I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.
— Rick Baker
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Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to…
— Urs Fischer
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I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled…
— Cathy Marie Buchanan
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Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.
— James Taylor
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In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time.…
— Krist Novoselic
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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything,
— Anish Kapoor
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I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs…
— Peter M. Brant
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With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and decided…
— Janine Antoni
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We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may…
— Bill McKibben
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it…
— Hans Arp
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The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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