Sculpture Quotes

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.

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

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

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

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

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.'

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). Through my earth/body sculptures I become one with the earth I become an extension of nature and nature becomes an extension of my body

All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.

... 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.

The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.

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.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

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.

There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.