Quotes by Sculptors - Page 2

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.
Jean Dubuffet
I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.
Louise Nevelson
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo
Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.
Edgar Degas
Art upsets science reassures.
Georges Braque
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
Henri Matisse
One must work nothing but work and one must have patience.
Auguste Rodin
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
Pablo Picasso
When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."
Michelangelo
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
Leonard Baskin
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo
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
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into sun.
Pablo Picasso
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.
Henry Moore
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
Louise Nevelson
Ramon Ramon is a riot. Totally paranoid, gangsta detective. Been reading it with my girlfriend on study breaks and it always gives us a good laugh. Not usually into fiction, but i've been giving this a shot as recommended. With all the heaviness this is relief in its lightness. Go get em Ramon.
Thomas Dekooning
Know when to push, pull or hold your followers, lest you push them while they are on the edge of a cliff
Lazarus Takawira
Know when to push, pull & hold your followers, lest you push them while on the edge of a cliff
Lazarus Takawira
Being a young leader is not the problem, having a small mind is
Lazarus Takawira
Don’t remove the ladder once you done with it. Leave it for others to climb too
Lazarus Takawira
Leadership without a following is null and at best loitering
Lazarus Takawira
Crisis is a good revealer of great leadership
Lazarus Takawira
I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.
Edgar Degas
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
Pablo Picasso
Nothing is wasted of time if you use the xperience wisely.
Auguste Rodin
Freedom is not a privilege for some but a right for ALL
Lazarus Takawira
Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.
Niki De Saint Phalle
I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.
Pablo Picasso
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Jean Dubuffet
Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.
Benvenuto Cellini
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946
Henri Matisse
A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist
Fernand Léger
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years
Henry Moore
O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue,with peace you force all the restless work to end;those who exalt you see and understand,and he is sound of mind who honours you.You cut the thread of tired thoughts, for soyou offer calm in your moist shade; you sendto this low sphere the dreams where we ascendup to the highest, where I long to go.Shadow of death that brings to quiet closeall miseries that plague the heart and soul,for those in pain the last and best of cures;you heal the flesh of its infirmities,dry and our tears and shut away our toil,and free the good from wrath and fretting cares.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.
Brassaï
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a confusion, or a freedom.
Jasper Johns
It took me a lifetime.
Pablo Picasso
The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The slave does what he is obliged to do in his working time and what he likes only when he is not at work.
Eric Gill
The test of an economic system lies in the choices it offers, the alternatives that are open to the people living under it. When choices are limited by coercion of one sort or another, the system must fall short of meeting the test in greater or less degree. The virtue of a free system – i.e., competitive capitalism – is that it allows energy to flow uncoerced into a thousand-and-one different forms, expanding goods, services, and jobs in a myriad, unpredictable ways. Every day, under such a system, a consumer’s plebiscite (the phrase is Ludwig von Mises‘) is held, the vote being counted in whatever money unit is the handiest. With his votes the consumer directs production, forcing or luring energy, brains and capital to obey his will.
John Chamberlain
‎"But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing." Happy birthday to Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)!
Louise Nevelson
The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
Henri Matisse
When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water. Well, I've tried to express just that. If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirits.
Constantin Brancusi
When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.
Benvenuto Cellini
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
Henri Matisse
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
Eric Gill
I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred to me not to be constantly making things. I just assumed that all kids liked to work with their hands as much as I did. I was an only child so I did have a lot of time to be creative by myself and with my parents.
Wendy Froud
Precious is sleep, better to be of stone,while the oppression and the shame still last;not seeing and not hearing, I am blest;so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
Pablo Picasso
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso