Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.
Moonlight is sculpture.
Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.
As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
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