Sculpture Quotes - Page 2

• The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Essence, Space, Perception

  Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Bonnie Rychlak, Isamu Noguchi Foundation (2004). “A sculptor's world”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

  Auguste Rodin

  Drawing, Results

  Auguste Rodin (2005). “Auguste Rodin: Images of Desire, Erotic Watercolors and Cut-outs”, Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh

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• I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

  Aristide Maillol

  Poet

  Aristide Maillol, Waldemar George (1965). “Aristide Maillol”

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• The more the marble wastes,
  The more the statue grows.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Waste, Grows

  "Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems" by Mrs. Henry Roscoe, (p. 169), 1868.

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• The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Principles, Passionate, Gestures

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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• 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

  Dan Rice

  Art, Three, Looks

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• Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Holes, Lumps

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Auguste Rodin, p. 61-63, 1905.

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• Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fashion, Animal, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1578, Delphi Classics

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• Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

  Kim Cattrall

  Art, Expression, Play

  "A lot of guys my age are terrified of me". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2005.

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• Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Badass, Bad Ass, Architecture

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

  Frank Stella

  Cutting, Painting, Stood Up

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• Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Perception, Together, Shapes

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

  Michelangelo

  Painting, Made

  Georgia Illetschko, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2004). “I, Michelangelo”, Prestel Pub

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• The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.

  John Ruskin

  Light, Darkness, Shadow

  John Ruskin (1866). “The seven lamps of architecture”, p.142

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• The skull is nature's sculpture.

  David Bailey

  Skulls

  "David Bailey: out of his skulls" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2010.

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• Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Frozen, Spirituality, Architecture

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• All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Art, Memories, Father

  Barbara Hepworth (Dame) (1978). “A pictorial autobiography”

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• 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.

  Helen Keller

  God, Heart, Eye

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Worry, Painting

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• The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve away everything else.
  Our understanding of identity is often similar: Beneath the many layers of shoulds and shouldn’ts that cover us, there lies a constant, single, true self that is just waiting to be discovered.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Lying, Artist, Self

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• 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.

  Henry Moore

  Animal, People, Shells

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.198, Univ of California Press

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• Moonlight is sculpture.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sunset, Sunrise, Moonlight

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Passages from the American Note-Books (Annotated Edition)”, p.148, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Wall, Painting

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

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Art, Denial, Action

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• Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

  Richard MacDonald

  Lasts, Painting

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