Sculpture Quotes - Page 2

In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

The next step in sculpture is motion.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.

Where the material ends, art begins.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.