Sculptures Quotes

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture.

The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Moonlight is sculpture.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do.

.. you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts.

Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

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

It is not hard to understand modern art.

If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Writing is not like painting where you add.

It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Weather is an amalgam of systems that is inherently invisible to most of us, so I use sculpture and music to make it, not just visible, but also tactile and audible.

You place [my work] in an art museum, it becomes a sculpture;

you place it in a science museum, it becomes a three-dimensional visualization of data; you place it in a music hall, it all of a sudden becomes a musical score.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer.

I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though only A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind.

Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

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.

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

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture.

The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

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