Sculpture Quotes

• 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 think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.

  

  Barbara Chase-Riboud
  • Beauty
  • Civilization
  • Function

• 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.

  

  Richard Serra
  • History
  • Continue
  • Certainly

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

  

  Eran Creevy
  • Rock
  • Sculpture
  • Lump

• First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.

  

  Wayne White
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Sculpture

• The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

  

  Hans Arp
  • Light
  • Sculpture
  • Animal footprints

• Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Creativity

• Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • May
  • Painting
  • Architecture

• I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.

  

  Cathy Marie Buchanan
  • Life
  • Stories
  • Models

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

  

  Aristide Maillol
  • Poet
  • Sculpture

• Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

  

  Richard MacDonald
  • Painting
  • Sculpture

• A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.

  

  Benvenuto Cellini
  • Painting
  • Image
  • Fountain

• Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

  

  John Ruskin
  • True
  • Stone
  • Sculpture

• In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say, 'There, there.' The literary symbols are more dangerous than sculptures and pictures because they are not so easily recognized as symbolical. Those of Dante are best. Before his angels we sink in awe.

  

  Kathryn Lindskoog
  • Looks
  • Dangerous
  • Angel

• Remember, this is back in the 1940s, and it was sculpture which probably - in my instance probably came out of the European influence, Alexander Archipenko and things of that sort, Jacques Lipchitz to a certain extent, and I was influenced by those things and attempted to do work that emulated their style.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Remember
  • Style
  • Influence

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

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Sculpture

• I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Art
  • Farmer
  • Academic

• The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Imagination
  • Artist
  • Truthfulness

• Maybe I liked his sculpture more when I couldn’t get close to it, had to see it from a fixed position through a pane of glass, so that I had to project myself into the encounter with its three-dimensionality.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Project
  • Sculpture
  • Encounter

• Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

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