Artist Quote by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it…

— Richard Serra

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

— Ruth Asawa

I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me…

— Adam Savage

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

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it…

— Anish Kapoor

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.

— Hippolyte Taine

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away…

— Michelangelo

You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.

— Eran Creevy

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

— Robert Henri

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work…

— Alberto Giacometti

Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability…

— Barbara Hepworth

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

— Julia Cameron