187 quotes by sculptors for you to enjoy

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. Constantin Brancusi

Architecture Inhabited Sculpture

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning. Constantin Brancusi

Art Beginning Been Any Just

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered. Dan Flavin

It Is What It Is Else Everything Delivered Clearly Openly Plainly Nothin

There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art. Edmonia Lewis

Beautiful Art You Passion Free Fire Nothing Luxuries Tree Air Hungry Cities Would Stay Eat Week Open Catch Roast Make Greatest Fish Were Up Forest Cut

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why. Eric Gill

Religion Man Philosophy He Know Without Makes Cannot Why

To know one thing, you must know the opposite. Henry Moore

You Must One Thing Know Opposite Thing

True strength is delicate. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Strength Delicate True True Strength

To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them. Marino Marini

Lose Ideas Explain Them Describe

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance. Robert Graham

Art People Impossible Think Something Make Substance Anything Decide Public

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it. Alberto Giacometti

Loneliness People Thought Past Think Must About Fact Never Talk So Many People In The Past Working Reason Many Now

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little. Alberto Giacometti

Master Down See Could Disappointing Terms Always Form Little Really

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

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. Auguste Rodin

Art Nature Mind Herself Pleasure Spirit Animated Contemplation Which Searches

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another. Bruce Conner

Rat Haven Through New Like Safe Safe Haven Box Another Passing Get York Going New York Maze Little

I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity. Bruce Nauman

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

And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions. Bruce Nauman

Work You Right Questions Makes Questions Interesting Then Choose Right

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing. Bruce Nauman

Think Embarrassing About Like Being Influence

In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure. Bruce Nauman

Beautiful Time Made Building Corner Ranch Case Structure Purpose Had Real Fence Same Hang Same Time Here Gate Needed Stretch

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things. Bruce Nauman

Thoughts Hurt Lie Father Down Tools Find Some About Dirty He Put Sharpened Abuse Said How His Get Where Them Your Used Ground Letting Keeping Things

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