Artist Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

— Leon Battista Alberti

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always think that in some way, art is the best tool we have to prepare for death. It's like a sculpture that you…

— John Cameron Mitchell

“There could be no objection to homicidal art as art. One could certainly object that an artwork made out of dead bodies is immoral,…

— John McAteer

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

— Richard MacDonald

Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a…

— John Green

We have art in order not to die of life.

— Albert Camus

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

— Graham Joyce

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

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

— Chuck Close