Quotes by Sculptors

Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something. Edmonia Lewis
Me You Will Girl Out Kind Would Some Something Rather Point Colored Had Because Am Praise Want Teach Defects
My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother. Edmonia Lewis
Perseverance Mother Father Indian Spirit Features Take Industry Get
No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa. Edmonia Lewis
Mother Father Drop White Veins Call Blood Full
To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen. Eduardo Chillida
Hope Try Seen Difficult One Thing See Look Looked Another Very Normally Thing
Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it. Eduardo Chillida
Way Must Inside Oneself Nobody Discovered Person Teach Express Found
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know. Eduardo Chillida
Enough Unknown Lies Never Know Call Even
What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link. Eduardo Chillida
Me Oneself Only No-One Link Nearly
In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance. Eduardo Chillida
Work Never Had Advance Known Any Anything Use
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work. Eduardo Chillida
Work Art Man Witness Implacable Between Himself Which Stands
Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific. Eric Gill
Alone Man Science Live Analytical Purely Attempts He Scientific Does Bread Informative Descriptive Hence
Mushy novels, pretty pictures, pretty sculpture, decorations on the wall, nice parallel lines - make me sick. Eva Hesse
Me Nice Sick Parallel Pretty Pictures Make Lines Wall Sculpture Novels
If I'm O.K., I will abandon restrictions and curbs imposed on myself. Not physical ones, but those restrictive tabs on my inner being, on solely myself. I will strip me of superficial dishonesties. I will paint against every rule I or others have invisibly placed. Eva Hesse
Myself Me Will Every Others Rule Solely Strip Those Abandon Physical Superficial Restrictions Restrictive Imposed Being Placed Against Paint Inner
Artists don't think archivally. Eva Hesse
Think Artists
Everything for me has always been opposites; nothing has ever been in the middle... My life never had anything normal or in the center. Eva Hesse
Life Me My Life Opposites Nothing Everything Never Had Always Been Normal Middle Anything Center Ever
Art is the easiest thing in my life, and that's ironic. It doesn't mean I've worked little on it, but it's the only thing I never had to... I have no fear. I could take risks. Eva Hesse
Life Art Risks Fear No Fear My Life Easiest Easiest Thing Only Could Take Never Had Ironic The Only Thing Little Mean Worked Thing
Art and life are inseparable. Eva Hesse
Life Art Inseparable
I am not sure what my stand on lasting really is. Eva Hesse
Lasting Sure Am Really Stand
Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience. Felix de Weldon
Good Knowledge Experience Tremendous Projects City Fine Fine Arts Could Federal Had Talent Most Devote Well Because Commission Jurisdiction Arts Where Experiences Washington Gratifying
Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all sorts of surface excrescences which completely concealed shape. It has been Brancusi's special mission to get rid of this overgrowth and to make us once more shape-conscious. Henry Moore
Become Once Once More Has-Been More Weeds Shape Concealed Since Mission Moss Make Sort Surface Gothic Been Get Which Us Sculpture Rid Special European
Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art. People found him disturbing because they didn't like their existing ideas being challenged and overturned. Cezanne was probably the key figure in my lifetime. Henry Moore
Art Change People Key Enormous Everyone Disturbing Lifetime Had Attitudes Like Ideas Period Him Because Existing Being Influence Figure Found Challenged
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature. Henry Moore
Art Best Nature Me Setting Complement Air Sunlight Open Daylight Sculpture Necessary
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. Henry Moore
Art Struggle Discipline Drawing Oneself Understand Much Fundamental
The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. Henry Moore
Art Good Me Imagination Unnecessary Classical Seems Both Unconscious Abstract Contained Between Quarrel Surprise Intellect Surrealist Quite Just Order Romantic Good Art Elements Conscious Violent
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. Henry Moore
Work Art Mistake Speak Job Release About Write Tension His Very Often Sculptor Painter Needed
So with the young African artists. What they have to learn from tribal art is not how to copy the traditional forms, but the confidence that comes from knowing that somewhere inside them there should be the vitality which enabled their fathers to produce these extraordinary and exciting forms. Henry Moore
Art Confidence Tribal Somewhere Young Extraordinary Fathers Inside Vitality Exciting Knowing Learn How Traditional Artists African Which Forms Them Produce Should Copy
Comparing Oceanic art generally with Negro art, it has a livelier, thin flicker, but much of it is more two-dimensional and concerned with pattern making. Yet the carvings of New Ireland have, besides their vicious kind of vitality, a unique spatial sense, a bird-in-a-cage form. Henry Moore
Art Sense Kind Besides Vitality Carving More Generally New Concerned Making Ireland Form Vicious Pattern Much Spatial Flicker Unique Comparing Thin Two-Dimensional
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