Bending Quote by Robert C. Bartlett

“Bend a people around the shape of what they lost, and let everything mirror its absent form”

— Nicole Krauss

“The whole gestural system of work was also obscene, in sharp contrast to the miniaturized and abstract gestural system of control to which it…

— Jean Baudrillard

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

— Cate Blanchett

The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to God, the…

— Sam Maloof

“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 ancients Knew exactly what they were doing. There is no mystery on why the monuments around the word are placed where they are.…

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the…

— Rafael Moneo

“A wise Christ-like friend once told me “Blessed are the flexible, for they are not easily bent out of shape.” SHE”

— Jackie Kendall

“This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve…

— Paul Valéry

“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of…

— Virginia Woolf

“Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue has been…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Since there is no difference of meaning between round, and a round object, it is only custom which prescribes that on any given occasion…

— John Stuart Mill