Born Quote by Isamu Noguchi

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

— Isamu Noguchi

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

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine…

— Antony Gormley

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

— Chuck Close

In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help…

— Henry Moore

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

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

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

— Benvenuto Cellini

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

— Constantin Brancusi

Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all…

— Barbara Hepworth

I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be…

— Barbara Chase-Riboud

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

— Ellsworth Kelly