Sculpture Quotes - Page 8

• Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

  Fernando Botero

  Real, Giving, Want

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• Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

  Herbert Spencer

  Beauty, Half, Emotion

  Herbert Spencer (1866). “Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical”, p.72

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• Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.

  Edwin Land

  Photography, Art, Expression

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• Whether or not you're writing fiction or you're making sculptures. You're trying to create a space. You're trying to make something where your own epiphanies and your own desires and your own understanding of the world can reveal itself.

  Denison Witmer

  Writing, Space, Understanding

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• There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Truth, Painting, Creation

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• I have made a sculpture … you will never be finished with it – when you pass around it or see it against the sky… something new goes on all the time… together with the sun, the light and the clouds, it makes a living thing.

  Jørn Utzon

  Sky, Clouds, Light

  Jørn Utzon, Christian Norberg-Schulz (1980). “Sydney Opera House: Sydney, Australia, 1957-73”

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• when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.

  Sybil Marshall

  Poetry, Movement, Way

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• There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.

  John Lennon

  Art, Believe, Tag

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• 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 to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.

  Richard Bach

  Block, Past, Years

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• A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do with the set of expectations that the viewer or the audience or the reader brings to that work. It should just have to do with how they interpret it and whether they like it or not.

  Max Kellerman

  Art, Book, Expectations

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Bicycles are pieces of art. You get that combination of kinetic engineering, but then, besides the welds, the paint jobs, the kind of the sculpture of it all is quite beautiful. Bikes have such great lines, and all different styles.

  Robin Williams

  Beautiful, Art, Jobs

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• Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives

  Chris Bangle

  Car, Everyday, Everyday Life

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• To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

  Jacob Epstein

  Reality, Way, Attacking

  Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.33, Read Books Ltd

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• I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Energy, Environment, Natural

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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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• We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.

  Melina Mercouri

  Thank You, Government, Names

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• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  Camille Paglia

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Ideas, Video

  "Great Artists Steal". nymag.com. May 10, 2009.

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• I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

  Jerry Saltz

  Photography, Ideas, Everyday

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• All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

  Jerry Saltz

  Dog, Art, War

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• In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Garden, Enemy, Pieces

  Jamaica Kincaid (2001). “My Garden (Book)”, p.96, Macmillan

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• My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the thinking hand, must be relaxed, sensitive. The rhythms of thought pass through the fingers and grip of this hand into the stone.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Thinking, Hands, Stones

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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• Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.

  Robert Altman

  Pieces, Stones, Chipping Away

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• Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?

  Sam Lake

  Art, Games, Acting

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• Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Past, Accepting, Abandon

  Louise Bourgeois, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (1999). “Louise Bourgeois: memoria y arquitectura : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 16 de noviembre de 1999-14 de febrero del 2000”, Actar-D

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