Quotes by Sculptors

Exactitude is not truth.
Henri Matisse
It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating rejuvenating exciting and satisfying.
Käthe Kollwitz
I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.
Louise Nevelson
Truth exists. Only lies are invented.
Georges Braque
Trifles make perfection - and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Pablo Picasso
My mother said to me "If you become a soldier you'll be a general if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Thomas Eakins
Faith in oneself ... is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
Louise Bourgeois
I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.
Paul Wunderlich
In the first grade I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it but I knew the line. ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.
Louise Nevelson
What's important is finding out what works for you.
Henry Moore
An indefinable something is to be done in a way nobody knows how at a time nobody knows when that will accomplish nobody knows what.
Thomas B. Read
You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it but you can recognize it.
Henry Moore
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
Louise Nevelson
Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
Pablo Picasso
Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Henri Matisse
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.
Pablo Picasso
I invent nothing. I rediscover.
Auguste Rodin
What's important is finding out what works for you.
Henry Moore
An indefinable something is to be done in a way nobody knows how at a time nobody knows when that will accomplish nobody knows what.
Thomas B. Read
You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it but you can recognize it.
Henry Moore
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
Louise Nevelson
Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
Pablo Picasso
Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso
I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Henri Matisse
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.
Pablo Picasso
I invent nothing. I rediscover.
Auguste Rodin
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
Henry Moore
I think in terms of the day's resolutions not the year's.
Henry Moore
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with $10 million are no happier than people with $9 million.
Hobart Brown
I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
My soul today Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.
Thomas B. Read
Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
I know that everyone brings to the work his or her own experiences and background and may interpret the piece like a Rorschach in their own way.
Ida Applebroog
God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Thomas Eakins
The important thing is somehow to begin.
Henry Moore
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso
When you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are rich and famous you still have a few ... if you are lucky.
Pablo Picasso
Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin
I think what has this day brought me and what have I given it?
Henry Moore
Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Thomas Eakins
There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
Henry Moore
Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo
I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.
Michelangelo
Now I really make the little idea from clay and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it look at it from underneath see it from one view hold it against the sky imagine it any size I like and really be in control almost like God creating something.
Henry Moore
I do not seek. I find.
Pablo Picasso
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
Jean Dubuffet
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable.
Louise Nevelson