Quotes and Sayings About Sculpture

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.
-- Alan Watts

#Art #Light #Sculpture

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Artist #Sculpture #Littles

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
-- Alexander Calder

#Long #Sculpture #Elements

The next step in sculpture is motion.
-- Alexander Calder

#Next Steps #Sculpture #Next

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
-- Alexander Pope

#Sculpture #Grew #Marble

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
-- Alexander Pope

#Art #Rocks #Sculpture

I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). Through my earth/body sculptures I become one with the earth I become an extension of nature and nature becomes an extension of my body
-- Ana Mendieta

#Feelings #Female #Sculpture

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#People #Needs #Sculpture

That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.
-- Andy Serkis

#Art #Years #Sculpture

If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything,
-- Anish Kapoor

#Talking #Skins #Sculpture

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Space #Sculpture #Body

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Circles #Sculpture

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.
-- Anne Truitt

#Men #Steel #Sculpture

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.
-- Anthony Caro

#Sculpture

Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.
-- Anthony Caro

#Space #Important #Sculpture

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.
-- Apuleius

#Block #Sculpture #Mercury

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.
-- Aristide Maillol

#Sculpture #Poet

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
-- Auguste Rodin

#Art #Sculpture #Holes

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.
-- Auguste Rodin

#Drawing #Sculpture #Results

Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.
-- Barbara Hepworth

#Men #Drawing #Sculpture

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.
-- Barbara Hepworth

#People #Sculpture #Body

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.
-- Barbara Hepworth

#Principles #Sculpture #Passionate

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.
-- Barnett Newman

#Sculpture #Bumps #Painting

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.
-- Ben Shahn

#Art #Class #Sculpture

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.
-- Benvenuto Cellini

#Heaven #Sculpture #Earth

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
-- Bruce Chatwin

#Chinese #Ceramics #Sculpture

My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival.
-- Budd Hopkins

#Feelings #Sculpture #May

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

#Real #Dancer #Sculpture

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.
-- Charlie Rose

#Artist #Sculpture

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.
-- Chico Hamilton

#Artist #Medicine #Sculpture