187 quotes by sculptors for you to enjoy

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. Camille Claudel

Character Take Advantage Devil Deceived Everyone Pleasure Mood Take Advantage Longer Greatest Am False Greatest Pleasure Any Crafty Whose

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses. Bruce Nauman

You Excuses Want Really

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. Auguste Rodin

Nature Ugly Never Artist Anything

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Jean Arp

Life Day Silence Technology Man Noise Humanity Will Distract Legend Increase Meditation Back Machines He Soon Devices Contemplation Passed His Essence After Turned

I paint with shapes. Alexander Calder

Art Shapes Paint

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. Auguste Rodin

Nature Word Every Flower Bending Harmoniously Carry Through Stems Towards Him Graceful Blossoms Confidant Artist Which Nuances Flowers Cordial

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others. Auguste Rodin

Genius Better Impossible Men Others Worse Say Drawing Some Color Souls Than Differ Them Modes Much Expression Among

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them. Constantin Brancusi

Mind Difficult State Ourselves Putting Make Them Things

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. Alberto Giacometti

Work Art Every Sign Only Proportion Obsession Primordial Qualities Knows Always His Subject Artist Form Formal Whether Measure

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see. Alberto Giacometti

Impossible Way See More Because Get Closer Differently Thing

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone. Alberto Giacometti

Alone Myself Older Find More Grow

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life. Alberto Giacometti

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do. Alberto Giacometti

Work Something Know Order Want Why

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. Alberto Giacometti

Me Once Has-Been Object Constructed Tendency Facts Been Discover Impressions Moved Which Transformed Displaced Deeply Images

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually. Alexander Calder

Jewelry Think Something Wire Making Been Really Eventually

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six. Alexander Calder

Enormous Everyone Mail Six Fan Fan Mail

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect. Auguste Rodin

Nature Eyes Intelligence Unknown Our Ourselves See Give She Forces Without Understand Does Suspect Which Forms Lends Them Us Shows Reserve Wholly Her Watching

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth. Auguste Rodin

Beautiful Truth Nature Eyes Book Worthy Fearlessly Open Open Book Name Read Because Accepting His Any Artist Inner Exterior

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. Auguste Rodin

Work Men Pleasure Only True Almost Artists Who

Nobody does good to men with impunity. Auguste Rodin

Good Men Nobody Does Impunity

I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest! Camille Claudel

Better Cause Fire Feeling Say Constant Stay Window Having Red Tower Because Bed Am Leave Umbrella Forest Walking Any Hanging Cannot Which They Say Night Set

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