Sculpture Quotes

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

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

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

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.

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

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

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

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

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

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.