31 Sculptor Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Every Imagination Statue Inside Block Discover Task Stone 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. John Ruskin

Great Architect Only He Builder Person Sculptor Who Painter

I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years. Adam Savage

Day Me You Made Long Living All Day Drawing Scaffolding Exactly Prop Give Give Me Stuff Parts Maker How Years Model Replicate Sculptor Wars Star Star Wars

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. Anish Kapoor

Space Job Think About Something Understand Form Much Sculptor Spatial

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. Arne Jacobsen

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

Great Me Artist Richard Sculptor

There's always constantly interesting things to do, and who knows, maybe I will be a good sculptor. I haven't decided what I am going to do next, but I am not going to quit just because I did something interesting. Chris Hadfield

Being a sculptor who uses found objects, all the objects I use in my work have been designed by other people. So I'm tweaking them in some way by squashing them or throwing them off cliffs! Then I formalise my damage by suspending them or arranging them in some kind of way. So I'm using other people's design in a way, so I'm an 'un-maker.' Cornelia Parker

Work People Design Other Way Kind Some Objects Throwing Cliffs Arranging Been Off Being Them Then Sculptor Use Who Tweaking Uses Using Found Designed Damage

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor. Damien Hirst

Better Thought Idea Always Than Artist Being Sculptor Painter

Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. He's built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it. Don Yaeger

Opportunities Advice Past Stars Others Danced Out Run Athletic Seizing He Talents Reaching Smith Hall Built His Fame Legends Crafting Working Sculptor Working Hard Hard Bust Needed

I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all the things you just don't have time to be in your lifetime. I could get to learn about all of them. Harry Dean Stanton

Time You About Could Writer Lifetime Learn Became Get Just Them Realized Sculptor Your Painter Actor Play Things Early

I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns. Heinrich Boll

Son Wife Born Cologne His December Sculptor Maria

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. Jerry Bridges

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean? Jose James

Music Art You Think Other Would More Never Know Because Go Lot Art Forms Times Get Being Different Being Different Forms Mean Ask Sculptor Paid Paint Painter

Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting. Kevin Brownlow

Home Brilliant Painting Silent Some Directors Take Never Like Forced Felt Sound Era Were Up Being Sculptor

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

Clarify Shape Like Sound Hands Want Sculptor Mold Use

The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art. Mark Ruffalo

When people say, 'Who are you?' I'm a sculptor and a painter. That's how I define myself. The acting is fun, and I hope to leave behind a couple things in my life of dramatic integrity and art. Michael Horse

I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done a lot of different things and it all comes from experiences that you have in your life, in your creative environment. They all help - I don't even know if they help; maybe they make it worse but they all influence each other, for sure. Norman Reedus

Life You Creative Other Worse Photographer Had Environment Know Make Sure Lot Done Maybe Influence Different Experiences Sculptor Your Creative Environment Help Painter Even Shows Each Different Things Things

Despite all the silver of Diana and Mercury, their images will be found on the lake. For the sculptor looking for new clay, he and his people will be flooded with gold. Nostradamus

People Will Looking Despite Silver Clay He Mercury New Diana His Gold Lake Sculptor Flooded Found Images

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. Paul Engle

Art Good School Made Master Gone Corn Composer Born Architect Hybrid Both Poets Writer Like Instruction Always Least Art School Established Then Sculptor Painter Why Why Not

I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?' Peter Marino

Myself You Architecture Will Before Beginning Projects Say Fine Fine Arts Something Involved Make Always Got Built Via Artists Arts Chimney Mean Room Sculptor Sculpture Floating Bring

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms. Robert Green Ingersoll

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