Sculpture Quotes - Page 16

• We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

  Richard Bach

  Block, Tools, Shapes

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• I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music, you’re creating a space. You’re building a room, putting some objects in it, and seeing what happens to the objects over time.’

  Daniel Lopatin

  Space, Creating, Rooms

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• Creating Your Character is Like an Artist Creating a Sculpture

  Jim Rohn

  Character, Artist, Creating

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• Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Passion, Joy

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• The durational aspect of video art is very different from photography or sculpture. The idea of looping things interferes with that a little bit. It eliminates that finite viewing period which I think is not so expressive sometimes.

  Marco Brambilla

  Photography, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.

  Michelangelo

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• ... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world to which it refers in a manner parallel to fingerprints or footprints or the rings of water that cold glasses leave on tables. The photograph is thus generically distinct from painting or sculpture or drawing. On the family tree of images it is closer to palm prints, death masks, the Shroud of Turin, or the tracks of gulls on beaches.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Photography, Beach, Real

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• Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It would seem that each medium has absorbed the other, leaving the photographic residing everywhere, but nowhere in particular.

  Geoffrey Batchen

  Photography, Past, Media

  Geoffrey Batchen (2002). “Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History”, p.109, MIT Press

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• When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs talent and expertise. But to be successful in his endeavor, he also needs to have the passionate feeling that he wants, at all costs, to create a work of art which, in his head, constantly demands to be accomplished. The same also applies to developing board games or card games.

  Klaus Teuber

  Art, Writing, Successful

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• When I put the camera back to my eye, I noticed a particular guardsman pointing at me. I said, "I'll get a picture of this," and his rifle went off. And almost simultaneously, as his rifle went off, a halo of dust came off a sculpture next to me, and the bullet lodged in a tree. I dropped my camera in the realization that it was live ammunition. I don't know what gave me the combination of innocence and stupidity... but I never took cover.

  John Filo

  Eye, Dust, Stupidity

  "Photographer John Filo discusses his famous Kent State photograph and the events of May 4, 1970". CNN News Chat, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2000.

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• Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

  PJ Harvey

  Mean, Drawing, Effort

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• I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.

  Paul Outerbridge

  Photography, Art, Eye

  Graham Howe, Paul Outerbridge, Jacqueline Markham (1980). “Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs”

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• Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Art, Children, Poetry And Music

  James Freeman Clarke (1898). “Ten Great Religions: A comparison of all religions. 1898, c1883”

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• It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Double Bass, Baggage, Handicapped

  DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1956). “Clouds of Witness AND The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club”

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• It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Simplicity, Way, Enlightening

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is floating and never arriving. You can make a melodic line dominant or barely visible. The conducting gesture is akin to painting or sculpture.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Lines, Gestures, Bass

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Laurence Equilbey, logger.believermag.com. There Will Be Joy.

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• Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest.

  Camille Henrot

  Curves, Creating, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with sculpture I have someone I can work with.

  Camille Henrot

  Drawing, Social, I Can

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about them as sculptures, because every part of the process is part of the project. They're sculptures because they play on the idea of what should be hanging in a gallery. In that sense they're also kind of ready-mades.

  Cory Arcangel

  Art, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sex divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from himself, drags him down to the hall of mirrors where he is always confronted with self. Sex does not care about the person, but about the act. The fig leaf which once was put over the secret parts of man and woman in sculpture is now put over the face. The person does not matter.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Sex, Men, Mirrors

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• Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel feels like. To write a novel is to come in contact with raw, primal feelings, hopes and longings and psychic wounds, and try to make a big public word-sculpture out of them, and that is a crazy hard thing to do.

  Lev Grossman

  Crazy, Writing, Psychics

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• I think about sculpture all the time. I work at it for ten to twelve hours a day. I even dream about it. If as a result I was only to produce something that everyone immediately understood I would't have been thinking very profoundly.

  Henry Moore

  Dream, Thinking, Twelve

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• I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)

  John Ruskin

  Photography, Believe, Men

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• Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as a sculpture made out of colors, rhythm, characters, and brush strokes, but with every single one of these always supporting one another.

  Alex Abreu

  Character, Color, Opera

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Years, Two

  Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Joselit, Kay Larson, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1989). “Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment”, Inst of Contemporary Art

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