Sculpture Quotes (page 3)

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• friend
• personality
• family

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. Gloria Swanson

• art
• together
• certainly

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. Martin Puryear

• question
• used
• tries

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation. Clifton Fadiman

• change
• giving
• space

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture. Isabelle Huppert

• wall
• art
• walking

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

• art
• poetry
• real

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

• architecture
• photography
• mostly

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. Parker Stevenson

• painting
• sculptures
• cuts

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. Frank Stella

• poetry
• literature
• music

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. Steven Pinker

• work
• people
• saying

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that. Damien Hirst

• painting
• logic
• scientific

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

• spring
• shows
• sees

I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see. Alan Vega

• children
• genius
• nature

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. Giorgio Vasari

• film
• ugliness
• making

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman. Roger Vadim

• music
• painting
• art

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. Camille Paglia