Sculpture Quotes
I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture.
Richard MacDonald
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Chuck Close
But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
Anthony Caro
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.
Jacques Lipchitz
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.
Philip Guston
Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.
Ben Shahn
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
Robert Smithson
So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.
Anthony Caro
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.
Moses Mendelssohn
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.
Tom Stoppard
You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
Roger Vadim
I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.
Jimmy Carl Black
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
Damien Hirst
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa