Sculpture Quotes

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. (Herbert Spencer)
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. View quote
Joseph Addison
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer - at least the answer for myself. Art is an action against death. It is denial of death. View quote
Jacques Lipchitz
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. View quote
Frank Zappa
All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part of that mystery so that the spectator moves on to the next object, making no effort to ponder the meaning of what he has just seen. Everyone thinks that he or she looks but they don't really, you know. View quote
Henry Moore
Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring. View quote
Henry Moore
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition. View quote
Alexander Calder
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet. View quote
Joseph Beuys
You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture. View quote
William Shatner
All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture. (Benvenuto Cellini)
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. View quote
Julia Child
It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole. View quote
Barbara Hepworth
Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape. View quote
Barbara Hepworth
To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched. View quote
Jacob Epstein
My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay. View quote
Andy Goldsworthy
Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our favorite specimens of Greek sculpture, from the sixth century onward, were originally parts of compositions, and if we were faced with the complete group in which the Charioteer of Delphi was once a subsidiary figure, we might well experience a moment of revulsion. We have come to think of the fragment as more vivid, more concentrated, and more authentic. View quote
Kenneth Clark
But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction. View quote
John Calvin
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through. View quote
Dan Rice
I don't want to make plop art - sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't want to litter every corner of the world with my sculpture. View quote
Rachel Whiteread
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. (Michelangelo)
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over. View quote
Elizabeth Kostova