90 Sculpture Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Walter Gropius

Future Faith Day Together Architecture Will Painting Unity One Day Embrace Rise Structure Toward Conceive New Like Crystal Hands Heaven Which Us Create Workers Sculpture Let Us Million Symbol Desire

The skull is nature's sculpture. David Bailey

Nature Sculpture Skull

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

Music Type Air Something Performance Sculpture

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. Michelangelo

Good Painting Kind Like Looks Sculpture

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. Alicia Keys

Positive Time Happy Be Nice Long Long Time Mask Nice Took Positive Person Bad Wearing Having Perfectly Like Concept Smiling Understand Always Becoming Real Very Person Sculpture Whole

Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing. David Sanborn

Music Art You Experience World Matter Dance Singing Out See Take Individuality How Send Whether Sculpture Express Expression Interpret

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

Best Painting Make Comment Sculpture Painter

What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like a flat crust with no plants or insects, a perfect outdoor gallery for monumental interactive sculpture and architecture. Alex Grey

Man Architecture Plants Circle Insects Ocean Location Monumental Ancient Outdoor Dried Perfect Crust Like Makes Bed Interactive Flat Burning Gallery Sculpture Ground Special

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. Constantin Brancusi

Architecture Inhabited Sculpture

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books. Frank Gehry

Home Live Books Way Furniture Minimal Stuff Mostly Comfortable Fish Lots Very Lamps Sculpture Stand Paintings Filled Cardboard Thing

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film. Jerry Saltz

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

You Words Other Respond Vital Sees How In Other Words Sculpture Viewer

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

Life Everyday Life Think Everyday Table Like Does Sculpture Chair Belongs

The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves. Arthur Ganson

The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo. Bayard Taylor

Seen Approach Our Saxon Tribes Ancient Arab Athlete Supply Race Apollo Ethiopia Sculpture Ever Among Nearest Symmetry

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. Ben Shahn

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920. Betty Parsons

Painting Since Been Working Sculpture

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever. Bruce Nauman

Work Time Try Looking Whatever Thinking Spend Way Drawing Find Casting Studio Most Making Lot Repetitive Efficient Get Want Whether Then Requires Sculpture Plaster Activity

Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary on the work, and as someone who held the sculpture in high esteem and who largely considered ballet to be the high-minded pursuit of privileged young girls, I was struck by what I would learn. Cathy Marie Buchanan

Work Girl Young Dancer Considered Television High Would Someone Struck Pursuit Documentary Edgar Learn Ballet Came Privileged Famous Esteem Young Girls Little Aged Held Sculpture Who Painted Largely Served Fourteen Muse

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. Charles Jencks

Art Architecture Car Become Down Parity Park Fact Perfect Inspired Parks Between Most Piece Pieces Wrote Because Been Site Just Artists In Fact Should Working Sculpture Things

Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item. Charles Pollock

Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction. Charles Ray

Building Everything Direction Intellectual Boat Sculpture Reason

Sculpture and seams are like boxers and broken noses: They go hand in hand. Charles Ray

Broken Like Boxers Go Hand Hand-In-Hand Noses Sculpture

Work is rich. It can be looked at psychologically or philosophically or personally. The interpretive nature of work is different than the work itself. The interpretation of work isn't the key to understanding it. I'm worried about making a good sculpture. I'm not so worried about the interpretation of it. Charles Ray

Work Good Nature Key Understanding Rich Interpretation Worried Philosophically About Looked Making Itself Than Different Psychologically Personally Sculpture Interpretive

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