“ Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way. ”
- Chuck Close- Copy
- 642
“ I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 388
“ So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. ”
- James Thomson- Copy
- 2.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality. ”
- Louisa May Alcott- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving. ”
- Henri Matisse- Copy
- 132
“ A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks. ”
- Henri Frederic Amiel- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. ”
- Michelangelo Buonarroti- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves. ”
- Adrienne Clarkson- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children. ”
- Thomas Hodgkin- Copy
- 3.5K
“ He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever; he bores on architecture, painting, statuary and music. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting. ”
- Anthony Quinn- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific. ”
- Mitch Hedberg- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. ”
- Louise Bogan- Copy
- 1.5K
“ My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. ”
- Maya Lin- Copy
- 114
“ Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows. ”
- Michelangelo Buonarroti- Copy
- 3.5K
- 1
- 2
- 3