Quotes by Sculptors - Page 4

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy books of that time. The Narnia books by C.S. Lewis were my favorites and, later, Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. I started making dolls to fill in the gaps of the dolls I had. Obviously we couldn't buy centaurs and fauns and elves and fairies, so I made them to play with the normal dolls I had. I must have been about six years old when I started making fantasy dolls.
Wendy Froud
There's nothing more difficult than a line.
Pablo Picasso
With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.
Umberto Boccioni
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.
Henri Matisse
I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven times greater than any other, for the following reason: why, sir, a statue of true sculpture ought to have seven points of view, which ought all to boast equal excellence.
Benvenuto Cellini
You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it.
El Greco
Art is not what you see but what you make others see
Edgar Degas
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.
Claes Oldenburg
Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted
Max Ernst
A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together.One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing.
Jasper Johns
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make.
Max Beckmann
There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.
Henry Moore
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
Paul Gauguin
Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.
Elizabeth Catlett
I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.
Jasper Johns
In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and party due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.
Jasper Johns
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
Andy Goldsworthy
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
Henri Matisse
My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.
Jasper Johns
I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.
Claes Oldenburg
Art is either a complaint or appeasement.
Jasper Johns
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
Jasper Johns
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 Buonarroti
I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.
Jasper Johns
When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.
Max Ernst
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
Pablo Picasso
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.
Pablo Picasso
I want to be famous but unknown!
Edgar Degas
Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.
Edgar Degas
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
Pablo Picasso
The greatest artist does not have any conceptWhich a single piece of marble does not itself containWithin its excess, though onlyA hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
Pablo Picasso
Art is either revolution or plagiarism
Paul Gauguin
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Pablo Picasso
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Pablo Picasso
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
Pablo Picasso
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
Pablo Picasso
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
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
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
The problem is not lack of leadership, the problem is lack of good leadership
Lazarus Takawira
Diplomacy in leadership is winning the war on behalf of both sides
Lazarus Takawira
Great leadership is a reflection of honest service
Lazarus Takawira
The spotlight does not change a person, it simply reveals what one has mastered in the darkness
Lazarus Takawira
I am sorry, I was wrong and it’s my fault, these are words only accustomed to humble leadership
Lazarus Takawira
No matter how much you water the ground, if the ground holds no seed then no plant is coming out. Don’t expect the plant to come out unless you have sown the seed
Lazarus Takawira
Love is the fertile ground that allows obedience to sprout & flourish
Lazarus Takawira
Wisdom is the ability to ignore foolishness
Lazarus Takawira
PRUNING can be PAINFUL yet it brings PROSPERITY
Lazarus Takawira