Top Sculpture Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Sculpture quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Marsha Norman
There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.
- Marsha Norman
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Constantin Brancusi
Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?
- Constantin Brancusi
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Georges Simenon
I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.
- Georges Simenon
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Yayoi Kusama
The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'
- Yayoi Kusama
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Eduardo Chillida
No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.
- Eduardo Chillida
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Aristide Maillol
I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.
- Aristide Maillol
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Melanie Griffith
There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.
- Melanie Griffith
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Barnett Newman
Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.
- Barnett Newman
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Robert Altman
Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.
- Robert Altman
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Martin Puryear
There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.
- Martin Puryear
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Ellsworth Kelly
The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.
- Ellsworth Kelly
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Michael Heizer
Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
- Michael Heizer
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Kari Jobe
When you slow down enough to sculpt, you discover all kinds of things you never noticed before.
- Kari Jobe
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Richard MacDonald
Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.
- Richard MacDonald
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Matthew Barney
[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.
- Matthew Barney
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Alexander Pope
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Herbert Spencer
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
- Herbert Spencer
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Henry Moore
A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.
- Henry Moore
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Louise Bourgeois
For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
- Louise Bourgeois
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Michelangelo
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
- Michelangelo
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Michelangelo
A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.
- Michelangelo
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Louisa May Alcott
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
- Louisa May Alcott
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Frank Gehry
I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.
- Frank Gehry
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: Sculpture
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Collection: Sculpture