Sculpture Quotes

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

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

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

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.

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.

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

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.

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.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

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.

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

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

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

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

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.

Moonlight is sculpture.

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.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.