Sculpture Quotes - Page 7

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.

Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their own affairs; and she was alone, and empty and unbelieving again.

Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear....these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music, you’re creating a space. You’re building a room, putting some objects in it, and seeing what happens to the objects over time.’

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

Venice is all sea and sculpture.

There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.

Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture.

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.

A second later, when he looked up at me, we were face to face, and again, even under these circumstances, I was struck by how good looking he was, in that accidental, doesn't-even-know-it kind of way. Which only made it worse. Or better. Or whatever. "Yup", he said, as if there'd been any doubt, "you're in there, all right." "I was warned, too,"I told him, as he stood up. "I just saw that sculpture, and I got distracted." "The sculpture?" He looked at it, then at me. "Oh, right. Because you know it.

I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.

A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.

I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.