Sculpture Quotes - Page 4

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

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Clouds, Air

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Artist, Thinking, Rocks

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Art, Food, Numbers

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• It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Meaningful, Wisdom, Giving

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

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• In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Dancing, Composition

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.158, Souvenir Press

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• The next step in sculpture is motion.

  Alexander Calder

  Next Steps, Next, Steps

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• At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread %u2013 sometimes it was still warm %u2013 I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.

  Louise Bourgeois

  People, Lines, Tables

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• I want to strip my work of 'effects' until it stands monolithic, based on reality and yet transcending it. It must flow naturally from my materials, from the way of the chisel and the way of the block... It is the ultimate ideal.

  Shiko Munakata

  Block, Reality, Way

  Shikō Munakata (1991). “The Woodblock and the Artist: The Life and Work of Shiko Munakata”

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• Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts it is the most democratic, in so far as it's instantly readable and accessible to our culture. Photography is how we move information back and forth.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Art, Moving

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• Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever capable of adding to the sum of the world's grave beauty.

  Stephanie Mills

  Art, Inspire, Humanity

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.129, Island Press

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• I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Sick

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• Once I have the finished sculpture, I’ll put it out on the street or in nature or somewhere where it interacts with the environment. Really it’s kind of the idea of turning the street into a stage and this sort of urban theater has a life of its own. If you have creative drive, and you need to manifest it, then you need some sort of medium to do that through. For me, it worked out with sculpture, and tape just is a means of doing sculpture.

  Mark Jenkins

  Mean, Ideas, Creative

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• Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Celebration, Form

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Feelings, Able, Privilege

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

  Clifton Fadiman

  Questions And Answers, Use, Genuine

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• An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Opportunity, Entrepreneur

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• The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

  Hans Arp

  Animal, Essence, Light

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• The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.

  Plato

  Queens, Tides, Made

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• A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

  Apuleius

  Block, Mercury, Woods

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

  Anthony Caro

  Viewers

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• Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?

  Lord Byron

  Soul, Form, Shows

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.296, Delphi Classics

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• Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

  Issey Miyake

  Wells, Clothings

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• When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Stones, Form, Figures

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• 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.

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Art, Father, Long

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

  Roger Vadim

  Ugly, Rodin, Film

  "Roger Vadim dies". The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2000.

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