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Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
- Auguste Rodin
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Auguste Rodin
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Auguste Rodin
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
- Auguste Rodin
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history;
it is eternal,
and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
- Auguste Rodin
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
- Auguste Rodin
Nobody does good to men with impunity.
- Auguste Rodin
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The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls,
and it is impossible to say that in some among them,
drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
- Auguste Rodin
Art is contemplation.
It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into
nature and which there divines the spirit of which
nature herself is animated.
- Auguste Rodin
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.
He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
- Auguste Rodin
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful,
because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth,
read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
- Auguste Rodin
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
- Auguste Rodin
The artist must create a spark before he can make a
fire and before art is born,
the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
- Auguste Rodin
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her,
without reserve, she lends them to us;
she shows us these forms,
which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence
does not understand or suspect.
- Auguste Rodin
The artist is the confidant of nature,
flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful
bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted
nuances of their blossoms.
Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
- Auguste Rodin
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
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture.
The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
- Frank Zappa
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature
on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
- Clifton Fadiman
Moonlight is sculpture.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
- Constantin Brancusi
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
- Michelangelo
Well, what I'm doing is really clothing.
I'm not doing sculpture.
- Issey Miyake
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished,
but the art habit continues.
- Robert Smithson
What sculpture is to a block of marble,
education is to the soul.
- Joseph Addison
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead,
he was still pursuing the art of sculpture,
but from necessity, and without much inclination.
- Moses Mendelssohn
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
- Pablo Picasso
So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture,
how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.
- Anthony Caro
But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does,
or like a chair.
- Anthony Caro
Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
- Anish Kapoor
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
- Gertrude Stein
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
- Pablo Picasso
My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close,
close friends.
- Gloria Swanson
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
I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture.
The rock guides me to the final sculpture.
I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.
- Jimmy Carl Black
I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.
- Aristide Maillol
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's
wax dummy is to sculpture.
- Ezra Pound
A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
- Frank Stella
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
I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.
- Robert Rauschenberg
Sculpture occupies real space like we do...
you walk around it and relate to it almost as another
person or another object.
- Chuck Close
You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture,
or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
- Roger Vadim
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed
in an 18th century garden,
it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past,
thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
- Robert Smithson
In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity.
I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then
try to find the most efficient way to get what I want,
whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture,
or casting plaster or whatever.
- Bruce Nauman
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
Whether you listen to a piece of music,
or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug,
or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not
what it has in common with others of its kind,
but what is singularly its own.
- Basil Bunting
I'm quite sure that all true professional artists,
of every description, in all walks of life,
whether their craft is painting, music,
sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern -
mankind.
- Chico Hamilton
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
Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along,
and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people.
I couldn't get interested in it.
And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.
- Ben Shahn
Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art,
you know, sculpture and things like that,
and ended up making things like sculpture and started
making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.
- Marc Newson
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
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been
disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue
and the only way it even has a chance to continue is
if the work gets out into the public.
- Richard Serra
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
Your life is the manifestation of your dream;
it is an art.
You can change your life anytime if
you aren't enjoying the dream.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as
a basis for architecture.
- Arthur Erickson
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
- Theodor Adorno
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
- Kary Mullis
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
- Marshall McLuhan
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
All art is autobiographical.
The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
- Federico Fellini
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
- Jean Rostand
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
- Elbert Hubbard
When I think of art I think of beauty.
Beauty is the mystery of life.
It is not in the eye it is in the mind.
In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
- Agnes Martin
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
- Marshall McLuhan
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
- Anatole France
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
- Oscar Wilde
Art is the right hand of Nature.
The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
- Friedrich Schiller
A guilty conscience needs to confess.
A work of art is a confession.
- Albert Camus
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