Born Quote by Robert Mapplethorpe

Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of…

— Aristide Maillol

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

— Saint John Chrysostom

When I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and the sculptor…

— Julie Taymor

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing,…

— Henry Moore

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 would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

— Ben Whishaw

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

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

— Dennis Oppenheim

What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the people. He…

— Sergei Prokofiev

The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we…

— Auguste Rodin

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

— Dorothy L. Sayers