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303 Sculpture quotes by 219 unique authors

I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage. — Damien Hirst
Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions.… — Ben Shahn
I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. — Georges Simenon
Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick… — Forest Whitaker
Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch. — Richard Artschwager
The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles… — Jonathan Larson
At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist… — Alberto Giacometti
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the… — Barbara Hepworth
What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of… — Daniel H. Pink
The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of… — Herbert Read
When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the… — Richard Serra
When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head. — Rudolf Steiner
At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with… — Louise Bourgeois
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from… — J. G. Holland
A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. — Apuleius
There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift. — Melanie Griffith
I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views… — Benvenuto Cellini
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply… — Bayard Taylor
If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few… — Orson Welles
I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway. — Joe Bradley
Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact… — Anthony Caro
I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional… — Chuck Close
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know… — Ansel Adams
In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it… — Kathryn Lindskoog

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