Sculpture Quotes

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I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

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.

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

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

Moonlight is sculpture.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

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

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

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.

No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.

Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly a sculpture, chiseled and polished by our food choices.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture.

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

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

The next step in sculpture is motion.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

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

I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.

I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

Where the material ends, art begins.

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through