Sculpture Quotes - Page 3

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a painter is painting, he or she may begin with a plan, but that plan is soon surrendered to the painting's own plan. This is often expressed as 'The brush takes the next stroke.' In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

When you slow down enough to sculpt, you discover all kinds of things you never noticed before.

A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.