Sculptor Quotes

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet.

Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

Patience is also a form of action.

I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.

I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color in a way they have never experienced.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way.

To know each other is the best way to understand each other.

To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

I never met a color I didn't like.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

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 am still learning.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.

Be a man before being an artist!

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre.

I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.

The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it.

.. The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

Genius is eternal patience.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Glass is the most magical of all materials.

It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so many people of all ages. As a parent and an artist, Im especially looking forward to leaving a legacy at The Childrens Museum, a place where I hope my work brings joy to children who visit from all over the world.

From the time I can first recall the rain falling on the red clay in Florida.

I wanted to make things. When my brothers and sisters were making mud pies, I would be making ducks and chickens with the mud.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect.

There's no one name that fits me very well.

A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.

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

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual.

What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

I would like the work to be non-work.

This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning.

Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word.

When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.

The artist enriches the soul of humanity.

The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.