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“The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.”

Needs Should Space Quality Should Have Profession Time And Space Sculpture Sculptors Good Relationship Goalkeepers

Author:Eduardo Chillida

“It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.”

“I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.”

Life Giving Art Artist Culture Given Painter Sculptors

Author:Frank Stella

“The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.”

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“Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.”

Ifs Wells Mother Wife Feminism Objects Feminist Manage Feminine Womens Rights Looking Good Good Writers Sculptors Good Mother Good Wife Well Dressed I Am Woman Personal Grooming

Book:But Will it Sell?

Source: But Will it Sell?

“When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.”

Art Seems Moving Painting Paint Conclusion Sculptors Inspirational Art

Author:Fernando Botero

“It doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.”

Art Meaningful Sculptors Meaningfulness Prettiness

Author:Duane Hanson

“Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.”

People Persons Soul Spirit Force Waiting Teacher Pieces Arms Skills Educated Release Sufficient Unnecessary Chips Hammers Statues Marble Sculptors Smashing

Author:Confucius

“All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.”

Men Trying Ideas Self Masterpiece Sculptors Unwanted Chipping Away

Author:Eddie Murphy

“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.”

Inspiration Faith Christian Inspirational Block Masterpiece Marble Sculptors Chisels

Author:Peter Kreeft

“If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.”

Ifs World Would Be Peace Perfect Trouble Trade Pursue Painter Plenty Abstract Temples Honored Machinery Sculptors

Author:Wyndham Lewis

“I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do it. My art can be an instrument for helping people... What a good feeling - that I can do that with my art.”

“It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.”

Looks Mean Photographer Focused Painter Visuals Vocabulary Sculptors Pictures And Words

Author:Barbara Kruger

“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.”

Use Form Space Materials Concern Considering Sculpture Attempting Minimalism Distinctive Sculptors Precedence Articulation Sculpting

Book:Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years

Source: Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years

“I have always dreamt of becoming an artist, and I have always pursued that dream. But I’ve had to realize, that I wouldn’t make it as a painter, a sculptor or a musician. I have tried, but only in private”

Dream Artist Realizing Becoming Musician Painter Pursued Sculptors

Author:Finn Juhl

“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.”

Art Different Purpose Metaphor Painter Climbs Sanity Sculptors

Author:Dorothea Tanning

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

Motivational Sports Materials Metaphor Muscles Carrie Bodybuilding Sculptors Bodybuilder

Author:Serge Nubret

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

Want Writing Done Film Direct Painter Sculptors

Author:Xander Berkeley

“With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.”

Used Objects Building Painter Architect Utility Sculptors

Author:Arne Jacobsen

“The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.”

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

Inspirational Soul Stones Woods My Soul Sculptors

Author:Toyohiko Kagawa

“The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.”

Should Art Philosophy Design Theory Perspective Medicine Astronomy Painter Grammar Geometry Anatomy Sculptors Arithmetic Liberal Arts

Author:Lorenzo Ghiberti

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

Kind Painter Shops Sculptors

Author:Michelangelo

“Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.”

Beautiful Poet Musician Traditional Painter Farmers Gardener Sculptors Plumber

Book:The Onion Girl

Source: The Onion Girl

“What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so that a person beholding his work may experience in its entirety the emotion felt by the artist while he observed nature.”

May Persons Art Artist Felt Forget Emotion Achieve Materials Art Is Strive Communicate Sensibility Sculptors Entirety

Author:Medardo Rosso

“The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.”

Should Humans Art Body Remember Poet Truth Is Art Is Instruments Forgotten Painter Dancer Clothings Human Body Sculptors

Book:The Dance

Source: The Dance

“Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.”

Writing May Support Rocks Musician Scales Bores Grammar Anatomy Sculptors Loathe Support You Bores You

Author:B. J. Chute

“And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.”

Men Art Play Dream Reality Individual Art Is Sculptors

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary. This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, carpenter - You know, I would be free to be so much more… I guess part of me or a part of who I am, a part of what I do is being a warrior - a reluctant warrior, a reluctant struggler. But I do it, because I’m committed to life.”

Knows World Has Beens War Would Be Hate Wish Born Struggle I Hate Committed Honestly Who I Am Oppression Warrior Unnecessary Gardener Reluctant Sculptors Carpenter

Author:Assata Shakur

“Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young painters and sculptors need to know the works of their immediate elders. Such a continuity does not exist here to a sufficient degree in the visual arts.”

Knows Needs Doe Art Today Young Artist Difficult Position Painting Degrees Painter Sufficient Visuals Elders Continuity Sculptors Visual Art

Author:Ilya Ehrenburg

“Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont see things by way of color. Theyre very child-like. Thats the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality. And thats the level of inspiration thats so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. Its that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature. Of course.”

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

Grows Sculpture Marble Sculptors Chisels

Author:William C. Bryant

“I mopped the floor with my hairThe reason I’m so interested in taking my body to those extreme places is that that’s a place where I learn, where I feel most in my body. I’m really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.”

Feels Reason Body Happens Learning Hair Discipline Extremes Experiments Repetition Sculptors Mopping

Author:Janine Antoni

“In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the people. He must beautify life and defend it. He must be a citizen first and foremost, so that his art might consciously extol human life and lead man to a radiant future.”

People Men Firsts Humans Art Might Views Poet Duty Citizens Bounds Painter Human Life Composer Radiant Sculptors

Author:Sergei Prokofiev

“I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?”

Knows Inspirational Giving Art I Can Two Time Three Can Do Hours Cutting Minutes Building Painting Ready Paint Boring Painter Bored Dry Brushes Sculptors

Author:Cy Twombly

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

Artist Painting Creator Sculptors Chapel Sistine Chapel

Author:Edvard Munch

“Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.”

Men Ordinary Lonely Horse Consumers Useless Aviation Priests Airplane Marble Trainers Sculptors Hamburgers Ordinary Man

Book:Flying: The Aviation Trilogy

Source: Flying: The Aviation Trilogy

“The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.”

Firsts Stills Transition Sculptors

Book:Rodin on Art and Artists

Source: Rodin on Art and Artists

“I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.”

Thinking Jobs Form Space Sculptors Spatial

Author:Anish Kapoor

“Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.”

Art Space Powerful Painting Paint Surface Flats Sculpture Minimalism Sculptors

Book:Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews, Book Reviews, Articles, Letters to the Editor, Reports, Statements, Complaints

Source: Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews, Book Reviews, Articles, Letters to the Editor, Reports, Statements, Complaints

“Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it following one's own desire, or, sometimes, the inspiration of the material itself: this gives the sculptor great joy.”

Giving Sometimes Inspiration Joy Desire Artist Materials Source Shapes Following Sculptors Raw Materials Great Joy Carving

Author:Aristide Maillol

“Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.”

Firsts Looks Children Art Eye Wonder Seeing First Time Sculptors Assemblage Eyes Of A Child

Author:Joseph Cornell

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

Painting Sculpture Bumps Sculptors Sculpting

Author:Barnett Newman

“This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.”

Painter Theme Sculptors

Author:Michael Heizer

“An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.”

Actors Theatre Snow Sculptors Theatre Actors

Author:Edwin Booth

“Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.”

Ends Actors Snow Sculptors

Author:Vincent Price

“Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.”

Men Needs Self Suffering Asks Prayer Poor Rich Grace Brother Type Offers Demand Capable Intellectual Ignorant Painter Denial Modesty Canvas Modest Marble Sculptors Self-denial Renovation

Author:Alexis Carrel

“The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists in allied fields. The award for the best painting went to the canvas of an Illinois artist. It was described as "a macabre, detailed work showing a closed door bearing a funeral wreath." Equally striking was the work's title: "That which I should have done, I did not do."”

“I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.”

“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.”

Want Kind Girl Teach Teacher Praise Defects Sculptors Colored Girls

Author:Edmonia Lewis