Quote by Jennifer Lake

A piece of sculpture has to be more than a block of wood.

— Gutzon Borglum

Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and…

— George Nakashima

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes…

— Albert Einstein

The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible…

— Ellen Gallagher

I like to say we can make anything in wood.

— David Linley

“From the outset my main concern was with the shape and the self-contained nature of discrete things, the curve of banisters on a staircase,…

— W.G. Sebald

I have always loved wood. Every piece is different. It gets better with age and it has a certain character all of its own.

— David Linley

I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life ...

— Sam Maloof

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

— John Tenniel

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

— James Russell Lowell

Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float…

— Joseph Plaskett

It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you…

— Sean Booth