Sculpture Quotes - Page 6

• A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Men, Differences, Tree

  1547 Letter to Benedetto Varchi.

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• Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.

  Israel Horovitz

  Beach, Art, Writing

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• Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

  Michael Heizer

  Likes, Imagine, Building

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• to give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Breathing, Giving

  Malvina Hoffman (1965). “Yesterday is Tomorrow: A Personal History”, New York : Crown Publishers

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• Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear....these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry.

  Kari Byron

  Beautiful, Bird, Way

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• A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Forever, Mind

  The Prelude bk. 3, l. 60 (1850)

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• I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Art, Architecture, Frontiers

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• Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything around a street sculpture-they all become part of it. A two-dimensional work, being confined to surfaces, doesn't have as much of a capacity.

  Mark Jenkins

  Art, Two, Space

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• Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and rain alone shall wear them away.

  Gutzon Borglum

  Prayer, Rain, Men

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• Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  Walter Gropius

  Art, Character, Hands

  "The Bauhaus Proclamation April 1919" (1919)

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• A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.

  Henry Moore

  Pieces, Shapes, Size

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.195, Univ of California Press

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• When you slow down enough to sculpt, you discover all kinds of things you never noticed before.

  Kari Jobe

  Kind, Enough, Slow Down

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• The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

  Louis L'Amour

  Art, Writing, Keys

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• I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

  Auguste Rodin

  Witty, Art, Block

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• For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Body

  Jerry Gorovoy, Louise Bourgeois, Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, Paulo Herkenhoff, Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy) (1997). “Louise Bourgeois: blue days and pink days”

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• By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

  Piet Mondrian

  Reality, Architecture, Painting

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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• Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry. Pay attention to music. Pay attention to paintings and sculptures and photo exhibits and ballets and plays. Don't let all this go unnoticed. Your world is shouting out to you, revealing something intrinsically glorious about itself. Listen carefully. Love art, the way art loves life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Art, Love Life, Play

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jul 03, 2013

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• A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Hills, Sculpting

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• I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Nature, Thinking, Differences

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• Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.

  Richard Artschwager

  Eye, Painting, Wanted

  Richard Artschwager, Dieter Schwarz (2003). “Richard Artschwager: texts and interviews”, Richter Verlag

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• Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

  Barnett Newman

  Bumps, Painting, Sculptors

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• Venice is all sea and sculpture.

  Vera Brittain

  Sea, Venice

  Vera Brittain (2009). “Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925”, p.375, Hachette UK

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• The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.

  Herbert Read

  Two, Luxury, Space

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• What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish, and plane them into patterns, sequences, sculptures, fugues of sound expressing some lyrical impulse, some spiritual doubt or conviction, some dimly realized truth I must try to reach and realize.

  Dylan Thomas

  Spiritual, Doubt, Trying

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• I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

  Anne Truitt

  Men, Steel, Woods

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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