Active Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action.…

— Anonymous

“I am not a statue that was carved and sculpted to be a perfect masterpiece. I am still being moulded, and forever it shall…

— Anonymous

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like…

— Ken Livingstone

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

“A sculpture of the magnificent shape of God. Oh, admittedly it was a shallow rendering of That Which Cannot Be Named; but art is…

— Laird Barron

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

Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is…

— Stephanie Mills

There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have to show…

— Kehinde Wiley

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are…

— Oscar Wilde

[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

— Malvina Hoffman

The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but…

— Max Heindel