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“Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.”

Mean Effort Painting Yeah Drawing Sculpture Exhibitions

“I walked out of the theater and started crying. My wife asked me, 'Why are you crying?' I said, 'Because I can't do that.' I didn't know how he did it. I've never seen anything like that. It's like this feat, this Rodin sculpture to me. It's like hearing an opera singer and the tears go down your face because it's not human what they're doing. It's like sounds of heaven.”

Knows Humans Said I Can Faces Heaven Sound Know How Wife Cry Tears Theater Hearing My Wife Singers Your Face Opera Sculpture Because I Can Feats Opera Singers Rodin

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.”

Thinking Book School Remember Fronts Painting High School Genuine Sculpture

Author:Joe Bradley

“I love looking at sculpture, but there's some sort of spell that's broken with it.”

Broken Spells Sculpture

Author:Joe Bradley

“I played a lot of music all throughout my life, actually, but in high school I was in marching band and all the bands. So, I was big into music, I was big into drawing and sculpture, and all these different things.”

Different Bigs School Band High School Drawing Different Things Sculpture Marching Band

Author:Kirsten Lepore

“I visited the Museum of Modern Art and viewed the exhibition of Picasso's sculptures, and I couldn't help but think about what it would be like to have a room full of school children explore Picasso's approach to making art.”

Thinking Children Art Helping Would Be School Rooms Modern Approach Museums Sculpture Exhibitions Modern Art

Author:Jerry Pinkney

“When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this is 1,000 pieces of gold gilded wooden sculpture. In terms of design, it's up to the space's character.”

Character Term Space Saws Pieces Design Broken Gold Sculpture Meter Gilded

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The mud represents the stained world, a dirty world, but growing from the dirt is such a beautiful, pure thing. This is the way the spirit should be.”

World Way Should Beautiful Spirit Growing Pure Buddhist Dirty Dirt Mud Sculpture Pedestal Lotuses Dirty World

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school.”

School Study Teacher Teaching Painting Degrees Sculpture

Author:Kurt Wagner

“He [directo Park] gave me a sculpture, a jaguar. It is the animal, obviously, and it is in my bedroom at my parents' place at the moment. But I am just about to move into my own place and I shall put it somewhere there. I shall make sure it has good lighting. This will be my first place of my own and I am so excited.”

Firsts Moments Moving Parent My Own Animal Excited Parks Bedroom Sculpture Lighting Jaguars Good Lighting

Author:Mia Wasikowska

“The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.”

Bigs Source Projects Scales Income Sculpture Large Scale

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.”

Thinking Children Art Said Ideas Art Is Adults Sculpture

Author:Carl Andre

“I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.”

Giving Sculpture

Author:Carl Andre

“Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.”

Way Block Sculpture

Author:Carl Andre

“There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people.”

People Whole Form Individual Objects Sculpture Primacy

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the prose poems would be small sheep wrapped in extra wool.”

Ifs Would Be Objects Extras Prose Sheep Sculpture Hinges Wool

Author:Matthea Harvey

“I have never, not once, gone on television and not received some email or tweet or comment about my hair. Without fail. Isn't that absurd? All it does is make me want to shape my bangs into a sort of middle finger-like sculpture.”

Want Doe Gone Failing Middle Television Hair Shapes Fingers Absurd Comment Email Sculpture Bangs Tweet Middle Finger

Author:Sally Kohn

“When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around.”

Way Forever Changed Parks Fifteen Sculpture National Parks Yosemite

Author:Robert Redford

“When you slow down enough to sculpt, you discover all kinds of things you never noticed before.”

Kind Enough All Kinds Sculpture Slow Down

Author:Kari Jobe

“Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.”

Hard Young Three Advice Painting Hard Work Needed Oneself Sculpture Three Things Good Advice

Author:Gian Lorenzo Bernini

“I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.”

Individual Difficult Focus Fronts Painting Isolated Sculpture Individual Work

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“Just physically, if you looked at the house that I grew up in, my mother created this greenhouse. And surrounded the entire property. And there was, like, trees and sculptures and like - it was, like, this crazy, like, secret garden space.”

Ifs Mother House Space Secret Tree Crazy Grew Grew Up Garden Property Sculpture Greenhouses Secret Garden

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.”

Body Space Your Body Sculpture

Author:Anish Kapoor

“My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.”

Firsts Art Influence Modern Design Particular Painting Engaged Representatives Sculpture Avant Garde Intersections

Author:Zaha Hadid

“In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic, dental acrylic, traditional and high-tech plasters, stainless steel, automotive paint, plywood, Britannia metal, found objects and taxidermy animals.”

Humans Use Found Animal Objects Materials Hair Paint Studios Wide Traditional Range Metals Plastic Steel Sculpture Humans And Animals Dental Plasters Taxidermy Found Objects

Author:Patricia Piccinini

“I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.”

Paper Casts Drawing Silver Sculpture Ink Bronze Pigment Aluminium

Author:Patricia Piccinini

“I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.”

Different Next My Own Productions Drawing Sculpture

Author:Patricia Piccinini

“The skull is nature's sculpture.”

Sculpture Skulls

Author:David Bailey

“When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic design, you were all taking the same classes, but the photographers just went straight into photography.”

Ifs Art Kids School Class Design Painting Photography Photographer Sculpture Graphic Graphic Design Art School

Author:Ryan McGinley

“My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.”

Giving Emotion Painting Sculpture Experience Yourself

Author:Marina Abramovic

“I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.”

Way Wanted Pieces Like You Computer Picks Surface Sculpture Clay

Author:Owsley Stanley

“I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.”

Literature Stuff One Thing Painting Inspired Sculpture

Author:Frank Gehry

“Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.”

Art Whole Reality Objects Painting Art Is Landscape Opera Sculpture Vans Composing Wagner

Author:Paul Virilio

“Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.”

Art Stills Reality Form Used Courses Technology Painting Art Is Used To Be Etc Primitive Sculpture

Author:Paul Virilio

“For me, architecture is an art the same as painting is an art or sculpture is an art. Yet, architecture moves a step beyond painting and sculpture because it is more than using materials. Architecture responds to functional outputs and environmental factors. Yet, fundamentally, it is important for me to stress the art in architecture to bring harmony.”

Art Important Moving Steps Painting Materials Stress Harmony Environmental Architecture Factors Sculpture Output Environmental Factors

Author:Santiago Calatrava

“I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.”

Persons Long Real Whole Nice Becoming Long Time Concepts Mask Being Nice Sculpture Always Happy Very Positive Always Smile Positive Person Wearing A Mask Always Be Nice

Author:Alicia Keys

“Whether or not you're writing fiction or you're making sculptures. You're trying to create a space. You're trying to make something where your own epiphanies and your own desires and your own understanding of the world can reveal itself.”

World Writing Trying Desire Understanding Space Fiction Sculpture Epiphany Writing Fiction

Author:Denison Witmer

“Remember, this is back in the 1940s, and it was sculpture which probably - in my instance probably came out of the European influence, [Alexander] Archipenko and things of that sort, [Jacques] Lipchitz to a certain extent, and I was influenced by those things and attempted to do work that emulated their style.”

Remember Certain Influence Style Instance Sculpture

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“Just look at the back of Donald Trump's head, any angle. There's some angles that his chin is just, what do I mean? I mean he's sculpted out of some kind of pudding, I think. It looks like his face is sort of melting slowly. I should talk because my face is melting quickly. He's some kind of bizarre sculpture. There's no one really who looks like that.”

Thinking Should Looks Kind Mean Faces Trump Angle Bizarre Sculpture Melting Chins Pudding

Author:Barry Blitt

“My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I grew up in a household in Venezuela with living, breathing art installations that were the way that she used to express herself, a highly creative environment where ideas were celebrated, where artistic expression was celebrated. Seeing her as somebody who was always able to have a creative output - if she felt sad, she wrote a poem, if she felt happy, she made a sculpture - I think for me, there was an early interest in finding outlets for my passions.”

“The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.”

Life Art Form Life Is Painting Expression Tragedy Musical Composition Sculpture Prerequisites Musical Composition

Book:Paul Klee

Source: Paul Klee

“We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.”

Giving Wells Two Government Names Century Morality Please British Fairness Thank You Sculpture British Government

Author:Melina Mercouri

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

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

Art Inspiration Practice Stones Tasks Block Sculpture Statues Sculptors

Author:Michelangelo

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

“Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.”

Looks Kind Art Artist Painting Sculpture Sculpting

Author:Michelangelo

“The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.”

Hands Artist Break Figures Stones Transformation Spells Shells Sculpture Marble Sculptors Sculpting Best Artist

Author:Michelangelo

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

“I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.”

Looks Forever Parks Worn Sculpture Wonderland Central Park

Author:Conor Oberst

“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.”

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