Sculpture Quotes

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Philip Guston

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

John Ruskin

The ideal is to be obtained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species.

William Fleming

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

William Cullen Bryant

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

Frank Stella

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Constantin Brancusi

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Ezra Pound

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Michelangelo

Moonlight is sculpture.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Frank Zappa

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Robert Smithson

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

Gertrude Stein

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Auguste Rodin

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Pablo Picasso

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

Chuck Close

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

Anish Kapoor

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Joseph Addison

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

Michelangelo

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through.

Dan Rice

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Aldous Huxley

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Bertrand Russell

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

Elie Wiesel

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