Top 585 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Sculptors - Page 10

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

When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at the one, but we laugh at the drollery of the other - as the world goes a pun is regarded as an imponderable commodity, all know the rank it holds in the order of pure intellect.

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

Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

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

I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for use. And for me, not to rely strictly on the history of art has always been an interesting process, to be looking into areas that we call craft and trades.

I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

I've always seen process of crafting as part of the thinking process. It really forms the gestation of the work. I'll get an idea; I want to express this idea, sometimes I'll start it, but during the process of making the object - if it's an object or a painting - it changes. It never goes in a linear progression from A to Zed. It's always this kind of circuitous, stumbling, groping in the dark kind of process of evolving.

Mount Rushmore is eternal. It will stand until the end of time.

I'm not so interested in the expression of something, but I'm more interested in what the material can do. And so that's why I keep exploring.

Simplicity is complexity resolved

Art does not exist for itself; it is but an avenue through and by which humanity expresses itself.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.

Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

Above all, art should be fun.

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

The hole connects one side to the other, making it immediately more three-dimensional. A hole can itself have as much shape-meaning as a solid mass.

I've never made a bad song.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.

AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

Life doesn't last; art doesn't last. It doesn't matter.

When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.

For the most part, works of mine are untitled. There was a brief period where I had poetic titles for works, and they're embarrassing now. I think, for the most part, it's not something that I have talent for.

Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images.

Renaissance always comes out of depression.

I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course.

I am not sure what my stand on lasting really is.

The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective.

I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

The artist is the world's scapegoat.

Zurich in 1915,... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the madness of these times.