sculptor Quotes

Patience is also a form of action.

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• Patience

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.

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• achieving

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

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• Artist

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

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• Time

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

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• anything

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

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• Discovery

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

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• faults

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

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• already

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

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• comes

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

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• hard

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

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• beautiful

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

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• art

I am still learning.

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• learning

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

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• greater

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

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• comes

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

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• art

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

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• art

The hand has the richest articulation of space.

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• articulation

I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager.

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• bit

Of every noble work the silent part is best, of all expression that which can not be expressed.

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• best

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

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• art

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

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• enough

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

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• army

I have both exploited and been exploited in the print field.

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• exploited

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

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• art

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

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• art

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

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• deprived

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

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• faith

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

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• art

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

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• assure

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

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• artists

My approach to my subjects was very simple. I never had them pose, we just talked about everything in the world.

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• approach

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

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• dinosaur

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

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• advance

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

• become

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

• art

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

• excuses

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

• interesting

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

• influence

And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.

• makes

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

• need

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

• grow

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

• impossible

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

• spend

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

• facts

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

• terms

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

• differently

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

• talk

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

• form

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

• someone