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“Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes are not forms, they are transparent, and what one really sees is the light of the soul in them - and that is what I try to give them”

Thinking Giving Trying Said Soul Light Eye Form Mistake Surface Transparent Sculptors

Author:Walter Russell

“I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of a majestic beech: "Statues are hewn by fools like me: only God could make this tree." The Taoists looked at the inside of the tree. They saw God present, not as the super-sculptor, but as the primal force from which the tree drew its being and its specific form. Becoming aware of this divine origin was for them "great knowledge," to be distinguished from the "small knowledge" of our petty, every-day existence.”

“When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of energy is required to make it, and I'm not sure that it is always aggressive, but when you have a great deal of energy it can appear to be more aggressive than it is. In fact, I mean you can talk about a waterfall being aggressive, but in fact it is just a very powerful forward movement of energy, and although I think sometimes my engine house is a kind of anger.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Mean Sometimes Facts House Energy Deals Powerful Movement Degrees Musician Theatre Painter Not Sure Aggressive Engines Very Powerful Sculptors Waterfalls Forward Movement

Author:Simon McBurney

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

Differences Talent Genius Stones Sculptors Masons Talent And Genius

Book:Shakespeare: A Lecture

Source: Shakespeare: A Lecture

“Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.”

Should Art Language Theory Studios Smell Painter Household Sculptors Good Art

Book:Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

“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.”

Design Color Shapes Musician Harmony Philosopher Painter Architect Sculptors Temperance

Author:Cristobal Balenciaga

“Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint or a pile of rubble.”

Firsts Sometimes Seems Might Names Rocks Saint Possession Italian Grain Glimpse Arbitrary Marble Sculptors Rubble Hunk

Book:Inseminating the Elephant

Source: Inseminating the Elephant

“I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a painter, but finish my work as a sculptor taking delight in caressing the forms.”

Form Subjects Style Color Poet Delight Painter Composition Canvas Sculptors Visualizing

Book:Fernando Botero

Source: Fernando Botero

“Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off the unneeded pieces. Do not wait for clarity to spontaneously materialize-gra b a chisel and get busy!”

Waiting Pieces Busy Casts Clarity Staring Statues Marble Sculptors Chisels

Author:Steve Pavlina

“Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and rain alone shall wear them away.”

Men Shows Faces Heaven Prayer Leader Records Wind Rain Endure Breathe Sculpture Posterity Sculptors Carving Wind And Rain

Author:Gutzon Borglum

“Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.”

Want Hands Born Fashion Figures Materials Type Activity Skills Fortune Artistic Capability Mold Sculptors Raw Materials

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.”

“We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.”

Eye Vision Perception Painter Remove Veils Sculptors Avant Garde

Author:Alexander Rodchenko

“We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor”

Thinking Trying Hands Spiritual Spirit Masters Holy Tools Transformation Holy Spirit Sculptors Robust Spiritual Transformation

Author:Jerry Bridges

“When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole hippy thing' in tandem with an in-crowd of freaks led by aging beatnik sculptor Vito Paulekas. It was Vito, Carl Franzoni, Sue, Beatle Bob, Bryan Maclean and me...people would come to Ben Frank's to hang out with us after we played shows.”

People Stills Whole Shows Claims Aging West Crowds Sunset Hanging Out Freak Bob Frank Whiskey Sculptors Arthur Whisky Bryan Beatnik Tandem

Author:Barney Hoskyns

“Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.”

Firsts Artist Hours Talent Keys Picks Perfection Fundamentals Errors Expecting Brushes Sculptors Basics Palette Chisels

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.”

World Made Reality Artist Found Fine Skills Photography Concerned Photograph Available Scales Painter Artistic Fine Arts Sculptors Rendering Fine Artists

Author:Ralph Gibson

“In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.”

Subjects Creation Building Clay Statues Sculptors Obstruction

Author:Bruce Lee

“The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.”

Ifs Men Way Trying Looks Mean Art Guy Directors Gym Crowded Sculptors Art Director

Book:Fight Club: A Novel

Source: Fight Club: A Novel

“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.'”

World Said Wanted Calm Analysis Being The Best Sculptors Analysts Calm Down

Author:Richard Serra

“I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to know, unseeing and unknowing, that which lies beyond all vision and knowledge. For this would be really to see and to know: to praise the Transcendent One in a transcending way... We would be like sculptors who set out to carve a statue. They remove every obstacle to the pure view of the hidden image, and simply by the act of clearing aside they show up the beauty which is hidden.”

“The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.”

Ifs Firsts Art Country Artist Musician Esteem Painter Celebrate Paris Acquire Dancer Other Countries Eulogy Sculptors

Book:The East and the West: (Prachya o Paschatya)

Source: The East and the West: (Prachya o Paschatya)

“The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good cook follows the recipe. The pharmacist can utilize the many years of training of the most famous doctors from the best medical schools, if he just knows how to follow a prescription. Someone has said that science is just a collection of successful formulas.”

“Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.”

Art Made School Born Gone Poet Masters Painter Why Not Architect Instruction Composer Corn Sculptors Hybrid Art School

Author:Paul Engle

“I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.”

Has Beens Work Building Painter Sculptors Incorporating

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows...Color is surface skin that fits over the form.”

Knows Men Form Black White Color Fit Skins Blind Surface Black And White Sculptors Blind Man Draftsman

Author:John French Sloan

“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.”

Light Color Photography Stones Excellence Paint Photographer Woods Mediums Painter Metals Clay Sculptors

Book:Photographic seeing

Source: Photographic seeing

“For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.”

Ifs Men Wells Seems Artist Player Activity All Things Function Sculptors Flutes Nicomachean Ethics

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“When a person disappears, everything becomes impregnated with that person's presence. Every single object as well as every space becomes a reminder of absence, as if absence were more important than presence.”

Ifs Wells Persons Important Space Objects Disappear Absence Reminders Missing Someone Sculptors Disappearance

Author:Doris Salcedo

“I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.”

Thinking Men Writing Art Song Talent Fields Poet Painter Novelists Proportion Great Men Sculptors

Author:Dorothy Fields

“I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.”

Source: The Confession of a Child of the Century

“Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.”

“Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.”

Drawing Sculptors

Author:David Altmejd

“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.”

Ifs Looks Made Beautiful Faces Lines Cutting Creator Finding Yourself Introspection Statues Lighters Sculptors Beautiful Face

Author:Plotinus

“The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins.”

Knows World Persons Moments Home Artist Universe Women Responsibility Rights Influence Coming Home Resurrection Sculptors Rights And Responsibilities

Author:Joan D. Chittister

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