Quotes by Sculptors

It's my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy. Niki de St. Phalle

Be Happy Happy Garden People Joy Destiny Come Make Where Place

Most people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy. Niki de St. Phalle

Work People Think See Most Fantasy

I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest. Niki de St. Phalle

Generation Important Important Things Some My Generation Make Wanted Biggest Really Things

I have both exploited and been exploited in the print field. Red Grooms

Field Both Print Been Exploited

I'm always looking for the next challenge. Richard MacDonald

Challenge Looking Always Next

I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life. Richard MacDonald

Life Everything Only Artistic Intent Create

I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out. Richard MacDonald

Knowledge Photography Memory Complete Anatomy Out Photographic Inside Inside-Out Physiology Outside Just Happening Interest Use Moment Grasping Zero

I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions. Richard MacDonald

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all. Richard MacDonald

Time One Time Driven Studio Economically Pieces Any Going

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis. Richard MacDonald

Work Daily Me Differences Tell Collectors Able Admirers About Between Pieces Make Connection Daily Basis Lives Basis

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on. Richard MacDonald

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting. Richard MacDonald

Will Painting Longer Lot Than Sculpture Last

I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics. Richard MacDonald

I am only limited by the amount of life I have left to capture the ideas I am already working on. Another problem is that I am not sure if I would rather create or collect art. Collecting art is another passion of mine. Richard MacDonald

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work. Richard Serra

Work People Problems Think Relations Exhibition Different Different People

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work. Richard Serra

Work Else Out Anybody Work Out Your

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public. Richard Serra

Work History Ought Way Out Has-Been Only Disastrous Continue Been Gets The History Of Public Mean Sculpture Certainly Even Chance

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer. Richard Serra

You Space Think Relation Kind Find Able Boundary Always How Context Articulate Interact Where Order Want Viewer

They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is. Richard Serra

Government Sexual Also Content Decided Now