Sculpting Quotes - Page 2

• When I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and the sculptor just has to discover it, I also believe you have an image in your head that you're trying to get to. So you're in a dialogue with the piece, a back-and-forth.

  Julie Taymor

  Believe, Trying, Clay

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• I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.

  Rick Baker

  Sculpture, Magazines, Digital

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• I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.

  Philippe Petit

  Dancing, Dancer, Example

  Source: collider.com

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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, Sculpture, Form

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• The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.

  Jacques Barzun

  Memories, Block, Research

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• Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It requires discipline, taking care of yourself, taking care of your own body first. Then it allows you to give of that beauty, the beauty that you acquire by sculpting your own body all your life.

  Peter Martins

  Art, Discipline, Giving

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• There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.

  David James Duncan

  Beautiful, Moving, Men

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• From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also encourage individuals to sharpen their skills and to nurture their imagination and intellect.

  George W. Bush

  Art, Views, Skills

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• The animators bring their own spontaneity to it as well, because when they do a take of a shot it really is like just one continuous activity for them. They launch into it and do it, and they're not even quite sure how it's going to turn out when they're doing it. They're sort-of sculpting their way through a scene and trying to make this inanimate object alive.

  Wes Anderson

  Trying, Way, Inanimate Objects

  "Wes Anderson on Darjeeling Limited: The RT Interview". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 22, 2007.

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• I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

  Philippe Petit

  Writing, World, Classical Music

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• Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.

  Nicolas Provost

  Artist, Sound, Cinema

  Source: filmmakermagazine.com

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• You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want to choose your thoughts carefully and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David that you are sculpting is you. And you do it with your thoughts.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, Fun, Secret

  Joe Vitale (2010). “The Awakening Course: The Secret to Solving All Problems”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons

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• He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Family, Mean, Hands

  Song: Leader of the band

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• I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

  Dan Fogler

  Writing, Kids, Creating

  "Dan Fogler Interview: The FANBOYS Star Goes Viral with M'LARKY". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. May 20, 2010.

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• When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine Michelangelo living five centuries ago, painting, sculpting, and writing. Imagine he is telling you that you can create whatever you desire, and the great danger is not in having too much hope, but in reaching what you have perceived as hopeless.

  Wayne Dyer

  Encouragement, Writing, Desire

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• God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. To live with your ‘thorn’ uncomplainingly — that is, sweet, patient, and free in heart to love and help others, even though every day you feel weak — is true sanctification. It is true healing for the spirit. It is a supreme victory of grace.

  J. I. Packer

  Sweet, Pain, Healing

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• Why would anyone even bring up the issue (of the statues) in a country where there are more than 10 state-owned institutions that teach sculpting and more than 20 others that teach the history of art?

  Gamal El-Ghitani

  Country, Art, Issues

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• We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain—her whole brain—that develop skills that lead to better relationships, better mental health, and more meaningful lives. You could call it brain sculpting, or brain nourishing, or brain building. Whatever phrase you prefer, the point is crucial, and thrilling: as a result of the words we use and the actions we take, children’s brains will actually change, and be built, as they undergo new experiences.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Meaningful, Children, New Experiences

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• Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Movie, Art, Able

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• Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

  Ann Voskamp

  Children, Motherhood, Soul

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• I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

  Gina Lollobrigida

  Mistake, School, Romance

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• Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Art, Moving, Oil

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.11, Macmillan

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• God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

  J. I. Packer

  Pain, Weakness, Use

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

  Sydney Pollack

  Writing, Editing, Form

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love the creation of these things — I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Joy, Things I Love, Half

  "Guillermo Del Toro May Not Have His ‘Mountains Of Madness’ Green Light Yet". Interview with Edward Davis, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2011.

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