Animal Quote by Hans Arp Download Open image “The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.” — Hans Arp ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Essence Footprint Light Sculpture Snow Toes
A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it. — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A sculpture of the magnificent shape of God. Oh, admittedly it was a shallow rendering of That Which Cannot Be Named; but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and… — Laird Barron Copy Share
The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor… — Walead Beshty Copy Share Image
Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into… — Malvina Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
“The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the god of the creation, remains within or behind or… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“La mariposa disecada se convierte en una mamariposa disesecada la mamariposa disesecada se convierte en una granmamariposa grandisesecada” — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without using oil… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“it is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent guise of… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
