“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
“The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.”
“Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.”
“After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.”
“The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its superfluous shell, doth not include; to break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do.”
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed–it is a process of elimination.”
“It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.”
Al Hirschfeld
Albert Hirschfeld was an American caricaturist1903-2003
“Sculptures are drawings you fall over in the dark.”
Al Hirschfeld
Albert Hirschfeld was an American caricaturist1903-2003
“As long as I can remember I have drawn and sculpted animals, particularly horses. The character and movement of the subject matter are very important to me – a few strokes of paint or a few lines of steel can say so much.”
Amy Goodman
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Antonia Regojo
“I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet. “
Aristide Maillol
1861-1944
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.”
Auguste Rodin
“All in nature is beautiful”
Auguste Rodin
“I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally well made.”
Benvenuto Cellini
Italian Baroque goldsmith and sculptor1500-1571
“Architecture is inhabited sculpture. “
Constantin Brancusi
Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer1876-1957
“Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. “
Constantin Brancusi
Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer1876-1957
“Where the material ends, art begins.”
Etienne Hajdu
Étienne Hajdú was a Hungarian-born French sculptor1907-1996
“I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.”
Henri Matisse
Artist regarded as the most important French Painter and Artist of the 20th century.1869-1954
“To be an artist is to believe in life.”
Henry Moore
1898-1986
“A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.”
Henry Moore
1898-1986
“Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture”
Isamu Noguchi
1904-1988
“Paralyze Resistance with Persistence”
Jack Biesek
2011
“All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. “
Jacques Lipchitz
1891-1973
“My interest in phenomena, both in my sources and in the way that I work?. is what compels me to make sculpture.”
John Ruppert
“To be a sculptor you need to be one part artist and nine parts navvy.”
John Skeaping
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.”
Joseph Addison
English Essayist, Poet, Dramatist and Statesman.1672-1719
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.”
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath1452-1519
“Fine art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.”
Leonytne Price
American soprano1927-
“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
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance.1475-1564
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
Michelangelo
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance.1475-1564
“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.”
Michelangelo
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance.1475-1564
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all.”
Michelangelo
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance.1475-1564
“The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.”
Michelangelo
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance.1475-1564
“Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.”
Michelangelo
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance.1475-1564
“The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows. “
Michelangelo
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance.1475-1564
“The Work of Art is but a shadow of the Devine Creation.”
Michelangelo
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance.1475-1564
“Sculpture consists of concrete material bounded by forms, intentionally built up by mankind in three dimensional space.”
Naum Gabo
“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973
“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.”
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973
“I know the value of money, and i know the value of art. If you have enough money, you buy it.”
Sir Michael Caine CBE
Actor, producer and author.1933-
“The problem of contemporary sculpture and the garden is one which has rankled in my mind for years. It is usually resolved through a process of inversion-that is turning it into sculpture in the garden as against garden sculpture. By that I mean the sculptor takes over the garden as an open exhibition gallery, of which the focus is their creation, to which the world of nature merely provides the frame.The Idea that sculpture is a contributory element to an overall’mise en scene’,in which, sometimes its role may be incedental rather than central, has been lost.In this we have seen the betrayall of the great tradition of garden sculpture, one which was unashamed at being decorative or delightful.”
Sir Roy Strong
“I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.”
Stephen Wright
American Actor and Writer.1955-
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Thoreau
“It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it it’s a sculpture.”
Tom Stoppard
“A sculptor wields the chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.”
William Cullen Bryant