Sculpture Quotes - Page 14

• Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.

  Hollis Frampton

  Snow, Style, Environmental

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• As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces of sculptures and ruined statues of gods as the barbarians did.

  Bruno Schulz

  Broken, House, Everyday

  Wojciech Chmurzyński, Bruno Schulz, Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie (1995). “Bruno Schulz 1892-1942: katalog-pamiętnik wystawy "Bruno Schulz. Ad memoriam" w Muzeum Literatury im. Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie”

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• If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams.

  Dan Dierdorf

  Looks, Ends, Made

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• I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  People, Needs, Movement

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• Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making and displaying art. An important aspect of the complex is the protected paradise garden, which is separated from the wild landscape by thick masonry walls. The materials used in the structure, including concrete block, car-decking, and plywood, require little to no maintenance, and are capable of withstanding the extreme weather that characterize the desert’s four seasons.

  Tom Kundig

  Art, Wall, Block

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• While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.

  Paul Claudel

  Lying, Maturity, People

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• Perhaps the more "operatic" video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the videos were a way for me to be social and flamboyant and to change my mind all the time. Because when I did the knit pieces, once I committed myself to a piece, I was locked into an idea, and the only thing that could really move was my mind. The early video pieces were a way for me to express what was going on in my mind.

  Oliver Herring

  Moving, Ideas, Long

  "Collaborating with Strangers". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'

  Yayoi Kusama

  Eating, Revulsion, Machinery

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• Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

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• I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Art, Book, Men

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.221, A&C Black

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• Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Research, Matter

  "Joan Didion, The Art of Nonfiction No. 1". Interview with Hilton Als, www.theparisreview.org. 2006.

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• I always want to do music that inspires or influences another generation. You want what you create to live, be it sculpture or painting or music. Like Michelangelo, he said, “I know the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspire, Soul, Generations

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• I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.

  Trevor Paglen

  Thinking, Inspired, Nasa

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• My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

  Gloria Swanson

  Friends, Years, Subjects

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• Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Art, Writing, Creativity

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• Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.

  Urs Fischer

  Relief, Add, Way

  Interview with Gavin Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.

  Cathy Marie Buchanan

  Real, Dancer, Stories

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• Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Fall, Passion, People

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• Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.

  James Taylor

  Romantic, Heart, Romantic Love

  Song: Someone, Album: One Man Dog

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• In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

  Bruce Nauman

  Thinking, Drawing, Trying

  "'Setting a Good Corner'". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

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• I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting or sculpture; it was everything mixed together.

  Thomas McDonell

  Art, School, Together

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

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• We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures.

  Bill McKibben

  Art, Taken, Sadness

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• 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.

  Henry Moore

  Ideas, Drawing, Sometimes

  Henry Moore, Sir Herbert Edward Read (1944). “Henry Moore: sculpture and drawings”

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• If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.

  Auguste Rodin

  Spiritual, Technique, Energy

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Class, Painting

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