Sculpture Quotes

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my works in pastels are the products of obsessional neurosis and are therefore inextricably connected to my disease. I create pieces even when I don’t see hallucinations, though.

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.

I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). Through my earth/body sculptures I become one with the earth I become an extension of nature and nature becomes an extension of my body

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet.

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Man is really not freeing many aspects. He is dependent on his social circumstances, but he is free in his thinking, and here is the point of origin of sculpture. For me the formation of the thought is already sculpture. The thought is sculpture.

No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything have one primary concern - mankind.

Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly a sculpture, chiseled and polished by our food choices.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

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, but the shape of any thing and everything.