Sculpture Quotes

• I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with sculpture I have someone I can work with.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Life
  • Like
  • Social

• I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)

  

  John Ruskin
  • Photographs
  • Sculpture
  • Acid

• A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses.

  

  Hans Arp
  • Painting
  • Intellect
  • Senses

• Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Writing

• I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Forever
  • Looks
  • Parks

• The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Fear
  • Eating
  • Revulsion

• A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Sculpture
  • Breaking
  • Hill

• Just look at the back of Donald Trump's head, any angle. There's some angles that his chin is just, what do I mean? I mean he's sculpted out of some kind of pudding, I think. It looks like his face is sort of melting slowly. I should talk because my face is melting quickly. He's some kind of bizarre sculpture. There's no one really who looks like that.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Face
  • Sculpture
  • Donald Trump's Head

• Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Environment
  • Design
  • Interior

• While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.

  

  Paul Claudel
  • People
  • Giving
  • Lying

• All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by language. Of course, each art is distinct, and has its own character - not just in terms of media, but in terms of what seems to lie at the heart of it.

  

  Campbell McGrath
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Dance

• If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams.

  

  Dan Dierdorf
  • Would
  • Defensive
  • Michaelangelo

• Carving a sculpture in wood is such a sensual pleasure when blow by blow the figure grows more and more from the trunk.

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Pleasure
  • Grows
  • Wood

• All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

  

  Benvenuto Cellini
  • Created
  • God in Heaven
  • Works Of Nature

• Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Painting
  • Sculpture

• A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.

  

  John Chamberlain
  • Fall
  • Break
  • Feet

• Any art that you are playing based on effort, loses something. I think that most of the time it should be something that happens, and you are inspired, and you just feel and follow your instincts. The best chiseled sculptures happen when the sculptor looks at the stone and says "I saw this sculpture in the stone, and I had to get it out." It's not contrived.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Art
  • Instincts
  • Sculpture

• That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Painting
  • False
  • Considered

• Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.

  

  Edward J. Fraughton
  • Exist
  • Sculpture
  • Viewer

• There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Art
  • Words
  • Sculpture

• I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.

  

  Benvenuto Cellini
  • Good
  • Art
  • Views

• If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

  

  Naum Gabo
  • Experience
  • Artist
  • Painting

• She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.

  

  Bonnie Greer
  • Violence
  • Lioness
  • Dark-skinnes

• You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.

  

  Eran Creevy
  • Rock
  • Sculpture
  • Lump

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