Top 214 Sculptor Quotes & Sayings

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

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

I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of what the company has become.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.

I'm an ice sculptor. Last night I made a cube.

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

A car designer is really a sculptor.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.

A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.

A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?

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.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.

What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?

I can't sculpt. But if I were a sculptor, as you start to get something that actually looks like what you want, then it starts to be fun. That's the way I find writing.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.

The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

My dad is a sculptor and a painter, and mum runs an art gallery, which sells beautiful jewelry and ceramics and paintings - local and international.

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.

A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades.

My dad's wife, my stepmom, is a serious painter. My dad also paints. My mother is a brilliant sculptor, and her husband is a sculptor.

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.