Sculptors Quotes

• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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

  Barnett Newman

  Sculpture, Bumps, Painting

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• Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and rain alone shall wear them away.

  Gutzon Borglum

  Prayer, Rain, Men

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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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• It doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.

  Duane Hanson

  Meaningful, Art, Prettiness

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• You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.

  Philip Gerard

  Art, Writing, Crafts

  Philip Gerard (2000). “Writing a Book That Makes a Difference”, Story Press

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  Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

  Frank Stella

  Life, Art, Giving

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• Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

  Vincent Price

  Snow, Actors, Ends

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

  Fernando Botero

  Art, Moving, Painting

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• I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?

  Cy Twombly

  Inspirational, Time, Art

  "What Makes art, Art?" by Amber Kane, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2016.

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• Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Powerful, Space

  Donald Judd (2005). “Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews, Book Reviews, Articles, Letters to the Editor, Reports, Statements, Complaints”, Halifax, N.S. : Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

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• When a person disappears, everything becomes impregnated with that person's presence. Every single object as well as every space becomes a reminder of absence, as if absence were more important than presence.

  Doris Salcedo

  Missing Someone, Space, Important

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• A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Men, Mind

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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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• 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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• Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

  Dorothea Tanning

  Art, Different, Purpose

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• I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do it. My art can be an instrument for helping people... What a good feeling - that I can do that with my art.

  Romero Britto

  Inspirational, Art, Believe

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• We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Eye, Perception, Vision

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• In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Art, Men, Order

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• Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

  Joseph Cornell

  Art, Children, Eye

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• I mopped the floor with my hairThe reason I’m so interested in taking my body to those extreme places is that that’s a place where I learn, where I feel most in my body. I’m really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.

  Janine Antoni

  Learning, Hair, Discipline

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