Sculpture Quotes

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

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

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

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

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.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Good painting is the kind that looks like 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.

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.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

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.

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

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

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

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

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.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

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.

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

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

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.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Moonlight is sculpture.

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.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

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.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.