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

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

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Martin Puryear

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

Jimmy Carl Black

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

Chico Hamilton

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

Marc Newson
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