Mission Quote by Henry Moore

Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.

— Jane Grigson

Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers…

— Ayn Rand

Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs,…

— Andre Malraux

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

— Auguste Rodin

Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.

— George Rickey

To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully…

— James Hutton

The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

— Michelangelo

In less than seven years the vestiges of the Gothic invasion were almost obliterated, and the city appeared to resume its former splendour and…

— Edward Gibbon

“It was an archetypal ruin portrait, a sub-genre that was terribly common during the fifteenth century. The top third of the picture-plane hosted a…

— Sylvie Cathrall

On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful…

— M. F. K. Fisher