Sculpture Quotes

• 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

• 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

• Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Taking Away

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

  

  Hans Arp
  • Light
  • Sculpture
  • Animal footprints

• 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

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

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • May
  • Painting
  • Architecture

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Sculpture

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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