Quotes by Sculptors

I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me. Camille Claudel

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's. Camille Claudel

People Other Faults Tolerate

When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left. Camille Claudel

Me You Garden Impossible Saw Everywhere Horrible Beach Void Had Idea Felt Left Get Room Your Used Saturday

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there. Camille Claudel

Problem Stay Seeing Had Go Male Italy Model

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm. Camille Claudel

Future Me Will Otherwise Our Hundred Disappear Deals Send

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee. Camille Claudel

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine. Camille Claudel

Hope You Fear Mine Same Anything Burnt Your Letters

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged. Camille Claudel

Problems Discouraged Feel Sort

I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more. Camille Claudel

Me You Women Wake Up Naked Same Thing Believe Other More Most Make Wake Up Same Deceive Any Thing Here Sleep

You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them. Camille Claudel

You See Only Share Like Them Show

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it. Camille Claudel

Me Parents Paris Arrange Sir Committed Convinced

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete. Claes Oldenburg

Art Dropped Am Concrete Underwear Ice Ice Cream Cream

If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed. Claes Oldenburg

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. Claes Oldenburg

Aim Give Single-Minded Existence Fantasy

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal. Claes Oldenburg

People Think Monument For The People Personal Being Rhetorical Therefore Symbolic Honest

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them. Constantin Brancusi

Work God You Joy Pure Seen Those See Pure Joy Mystery Obscure Look Until Offer Closest Formulas Them Sculptures

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition. Dan Flavin

Broken Light Space Down Composition Could Crucial Knew Real Room Realizing Electric Electric Light Planting Illusions Actual Played

Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work. Diego Giacometti

Work People Space Perception Approach Dissolve Say Hi Touch Emotional Takes Primarily Over New Come Yes Begins Get May Human Which Interest Across Near Street Desire

I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn. Edmonia Lewis

Thought Everything Had Knew Soon Learn Came Rome Found

I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered. Edmonia Lewis

Women Strong Sympathy All Women Struggled Who Suffered