Sculpting Quotes

• The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

  J. I. Packer

  Stronger, Body, Waste

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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  I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

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• Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Sculpture, Holes

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Auguste Rodin, p. 61-63, 1905.

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

  Joseph Addison

  Motivational, Inspiring, Education

  The Spectator, No. 215, November 6, 1711.

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

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Worry, Sculpture

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

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Clouds, Air

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• You are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpturing is you (Dr. Joe Vitale)

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Success, Drs

  Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Stronger, Chronic Pain, Harder

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

  Chuck Close

  Real, Space, Sculpture

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• A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Sculpture, Hills

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• A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Block, Elephants, Looks

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• Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational Life, Lying, Passion

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• Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Motivational, Art, Work

  "Kurt Vonnegut Once Sent This Amazing Letter To A High School" by Emily Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2014.

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Artist, Sculpture

  Pablo Picasso, Anatoli Podoksik (1996). “Pablo Picasso: the creative eye (from 1881 to 1914)”, Parkstone Press

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• 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

  Artist, Hands, Sculpture

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• You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpting is you.

  Joe Vitale

  Law Of Attraction, Secret Law Of Attraction, Attraction

  Joe Vitale (2010). “The Awakening Course: The Secret to Solving All Problems”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons

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• Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

  Barnett Newman

  Sculpture, Bumps, Painting

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• For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Passion, Character, Interesting

  "Sculpting in Time". Book by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986.

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• Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Art, Feelings, Breathe

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Looks, Sculpture

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• I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

  Anthony Quinn

  Painting

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• I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.

  Richard Serra

  Space, Sculpture, Use

  Kynaston McShine, Richard Serra, Lynne Cooke, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2007). “Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years”, p.77, The Museum of Modern Art

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• I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.

  Augusta Savage

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Art

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• Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

  Herb Alpert

  Art, Painting, Moments

  FaceBook post by Herb Alpert from Apr 26, 2017

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• Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.

  Chris Hadfield

  Life, Motivational, Time

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