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Sculpture Related Quotes
| "The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone." |
| "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." |
| "In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it." |
| "Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." |
| "If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all." |
| "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." |
| "The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has." |
| "It is well with me when only when I have a chisel in my hand." |
| "Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop." |
| "The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows." |
| "Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture." |
| "After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become." |
| "The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its superfluous shell, doth not include; to break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do." |
| "The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed--it is a process of elimination." |
| "The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more the statue grows.
" |
| "I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet. " Aristide Maillol 1861-1944 |
| "I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need." Auguste Rodin |
| "Architecture is inhabited sculpture. " Constantin Brancusi American editor, publisher and writer. 1876-1957 |
| "Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. " Constantin Brancusi American editor, publisher and writer. 1876-1957 |
| "Where the material ends, art begins." Etienne Hajdu |
| "I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor." Henri Matisse Artist regarded as the most important French Painter and Artist of the 20th century. 1869-1954 |
| "To be an artist is to believe in life." Henry Moore 1898-1986 |
| "A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things." Henry Moore 1898-1986 |
| "Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture" Isamu Noguchi 1904-1988 |
| "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 1891-1973 |
| "My interest in phenomena, both in my sources and in the way that I work…. is what compels me to make sculpture." John Ruppert |
| "To be a sculptor you need to be one part artist and nine parts navvy." John Skeaping |
| "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." Joseph Addison English Essayist, Poet, Dramatist and Statesman. 1672-1719 |
| "Sculpture consists of concrete material bounded by forms, intentionally built up by mankind in three dimensional space." Naum Gabo |
| "Sculpture is the art of the intelligence." Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 |
| "I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums." Stephen Wright American Actor and Writer. 1955- |
| "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 |
| "A sculptor wields the chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty." William Cullen Bryant |
