Quotes by Sculpture The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material. Michelangelo sculpture block inspiration The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone. Michelangelo sculpture artist hands As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows. Michelangelo sculpture inspiration stones A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking. Michelangelo sculpture If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist. Naum Gabo sculpture inexperience artist Moonlight is sculpture. Nathaniel Hawthorne sculpture sunrise sunset I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture. Owsley Stanley sculpture clay pieces The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves. Pablo Picasso athens sculpture people Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. Pablo Picasso sculpture pain artist I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production. Patricia Piccinini sculpture drawing different I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper. Patricia Piccinini sculpture drawing ink It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture. Paul Cezanne sculpture painting years Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art. Paul Virilio sculpture reality art The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today. Peggy Noonan sculpture yesterday snow By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created. Piet Mondrian sculpture architecture reality I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical. PJ Harvey sculpture drawing photography The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried. Plato sculpture tides queens 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. Rachel Whiteread sculpture world art Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch. Richard Artschwager sculpture painting eye We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory. Richard Bach sculpture block tools «1234567891011»