Sculpture Quotes - Page 4

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.

Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.

Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story — or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall — is, Is it dead or alive?

At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread %u2013 sometimes it was still warm %u2013 I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.