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• Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings… Select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It engenders a spirit of gratitude. It develops latent talent, sharpens your capacity to reason, to act, and to find purpose in life. It dispels loneliness and heartache. It gives a renewal, a spark of enthusiasm, and zest for life.

  Richard G. Scott

  Gratitude, Loneliness, Zest

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• I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Sleep, Thinking, Environment

  "Andy Goldsworthy goes into the wild". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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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, Use, Form

  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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• If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.

  Anish Kapoor

  Talking, Skins, Scales

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• The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

  John Ruskin

  Doe, Common, Sculptors

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.26

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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, Shells

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• Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

  Anish Kapoor

  Space, Body, Your Body

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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 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

  Heart, Hands, Imagination

  Kim Sichel, Philip Guston (1994). “Philip Guston, 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles”, University of Washington Press

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• She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Curves, Perfect, Together

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

  Gertrude Stein

  Air, Two, Support

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1958). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: A novel of thank you”

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• My sculpture thrives in the context of the city, interacting with people in the course of their daily lives.

  Janet Echelman

  Cities, People, Daily Life

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• Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.

  Anthony Caro

  Space, Important, Facts

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• As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we deal with one another, we are dealing not merely with our own human personalities but also with the unseen but ever-present throng of ideas, visions, stories, poems, songs, sculptures, art-as-facts that crowd the temple of consciousness waiting their turn to be born.

  Julia Cameron

  Song, Art, Moving

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• It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Hands, Wells

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• As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Form, Teach, Anatomy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.252

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• Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

  Henry Moore

  Beautiful, Art, Air

  Henry Moore, David Sylvester, Alan Bowness (1986). “Henry Moore: Sculpture 1949-54”, Lund Humphries Publishers

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• A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.

  Samuel Johnson

  Block, Cutting, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.414

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• 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

  Art, Denial, Answers

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• Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Phantoms, Painting, Raises

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.146, Wildside Press LLC

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Artist, Comment

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

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• I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.

  Barbara Chase-Riboud

  Beautiful, Thinking, Civilization

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• Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

  John Ruskin

  Cutting, Stones, Form

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.157

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• The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Spiritual, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.163

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• Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Looks, Painting

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