Sculptors Quotes

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Today stretches ahead of you waiting to be shaped.

  You are the sculptor who gets to do the shaping.  What today will be like is up to you.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect.

If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel.

Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character, Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.

There once was a sculptor called PhidiasWho had a distaste for the hideous.

So he sculpt AphroditeWithout any nightieWhich shocked the ultra-fastidious.

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.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

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

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

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

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.