Sculpture Quotes

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my works in pastels are the products of obsessional neurosis and are therefore inextricably connected to my disease. I create pieces even when I don’t see hallucinations, though.

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.

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

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Moonlight is sculpture.

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

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

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.'

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

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

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

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.

Man is really not freeing many aspects. He is dependent on his social circumstances, but he is free in his thinking, and here is the point of origin of sculpture. For me the formation of the thought is already sculpture. The thought is sculpture.

No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.

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.

Food is exacting. The face is truly a canvas upon which our food choices paint an accurate picture. The body is truly a sculpture, chiseled and polished by our food choices.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a 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.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

The next step in sculpture is motion.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

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

I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.

My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not 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.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

Where the material ends, art begins.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.

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