Carving Quote by Martin Puryear

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

— Cindy Sherman

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

— Michelangelo

I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawing.

— Ruth Asawa

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with…

— Philip Guston

I never thought about doing anything other than making art.

— Kim Gordon

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

— Ruth Asawa

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of…

— Willard Wigan

Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?

— Rainbow Rowell

I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.

— Henry Moore

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

— Nick Cave

I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.

— Henri Matisse