Sculpture Quotes

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.

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

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.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

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.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

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

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.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

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.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.