Quotes about sculpture

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

We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the genre of the autonomous torso. The poet's view of the mutilated body thus has nothing to do with the previous century's Romanticism of fragments and ruins it is part of the breakthrough in modern art to the concept of the object that states itself with authority and the body that publicizes itself with authorization.

Moonlight is sculpture sunlight is painting.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ‘straight’, ‘square’, and ‘flat’ the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture

Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two great classes: those arts, like sculpture, painting, acting, which are representative, or as used to be said very clumsily, imitative; and those, like architecture, music, and the dance, which are self-sufficient, and merely presentative.

I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven times greater than any other, for the following reason: why, sir, a statue of true sculpture ought to have seven points of view, which ought all to boast equal excellence.

The greatest masters have only made single statues, groups are always inferior; that is why Carpeaux, big though he was, is less so than Rodin, for he never knew how to make single statues. He did not know how to find his rhythm in the arrangement of the shapes of one body, but obtained it by the disposition of several. The great sculptors are there to prove it. Think of the masterpieces which we like most, all standing or seated, and one at a time, and they are not in the least monotonous. The

With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.

Dance is moving sculpture.

The greatest artist does not have any conceptWhich a single piece of marble does not itself containWithin its excess, though onlyA hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

Your life is a sculpture, every day chip away.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

In poetry we pare down our thoughts into their most graceful shapes, like minimalist sculptures.

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed, but woke the next morningelated for another try.

For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

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

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

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

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

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

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

The skull is nature's sculpture.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

Then marble soften'd into life grew warm.

The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.