Sculptors Quotes - Page 2

• Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

  Joseph Cornell

  Art, Children, Eye

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• As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.

  Auguste Rodin

  Light, Play, Shadow

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Sculpture, Shapes

  "Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation".

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• I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.

  Michael Heizer

  Commitment, Thinking, Space

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• Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.

  Susan Sontag

  Perfection, Looks, Magazines

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.

  Plotinus

  Beautiful, Cutting, Finding Yourself

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• I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good, high-quality work by a Russian sculptor, depicting not just a strong-willed but also thoughtful and kind man.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Home, Thoughtful

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of chess and the accomplishment of a good game as an art, and something to be admired no less than an artist's canvas or the product of a sculptor's chisel. Chess is a mental diversion rather than a game. It is both artistic and scientific.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Art, Games, Accomplishment

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• Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child-like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Children, Inspiration

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• When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.

  Don DeLillo

  Average, Machines, Use

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Clever, Hands, Way

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• The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.

  Eduardo Chillida

  Should Have, Space, Good Relationship

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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, Sculpture, Form

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

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• It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Jobs, Mistake

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.20, Univ of California Press

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• A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.

  Serge Nubret

  Motivational, Sports, Bodybuilding

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• Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young painters and sculptors need to know the works of their immediate elders. Such a continuity does not exist here to a sufficient degree in the visual arts.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Art, Degrees, Doe

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• And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Art, Reality

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• I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary. This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, carpenter - You know, I would be free to be so much more… I guess part of me or a part of who I am, a part of what I do is being a warrior - a reluctant warrior, a reluctant struggler. But I do it, because I’m committed to life.

  Assata Shakur

  Hate, War, Struggle

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• Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Blood, Style

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

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• The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

  Michael Tippett

  Thinking, Greek, Different

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• "Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Photography, Writing, Thinking

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• Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Skills, People

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• In my view, the composer,
  just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter,
  is in duty bound to serve Man, the people.
  He must beautify life and defend it.
  He must be a citizen first and foremost,
  so that his art might consciously extol human life
  and lead man to a radiant future.

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Art, Men, Views

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• "Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Photography, Brother, Artist

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• Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

  Marya Mannes

  Mother, Wife, Feminist

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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