Quotes by Sculptors - Page 5

Selfish leadership is okay with the failure of the successor so as to ensure that any form of praise will continue to be heaped on them
Lazarus Takawira
We are not just the leaders of tomorrow. Leadership is not a destination, leadership is a lifetime journey
Lazarus Takawira
What matters is what appears in your soul, not what your eyes see and what you can name.
Zdzisław Beksiński
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul Gauguin
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.
Camille Claudel
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.
Louise Bourgeois
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
People need to believe in more than what they see in everyday life. Somewhere inside, we all know that there is more out there than we experience normally. A belief in the other world can help explain why things happen to us. It can give us hope. I feel that we all hope we never get to be too old to fly to Never-Never Land or go through a wardrobe into Narnia. We want to think that there is something looking back at us when we look at the stars. We want to think that just around the bend in the forest, we'll find fairies dancing in a ring. I hope that my work affirms those beliefs," she continues. "I want people to think of my work as a key to that other world.
Wendy Froud
AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
Michelangelo
Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How many scholars have simply assumed that males have always played the dominant role in leadership and creative invention and projected this assumption into their analysis of ancient cultures? Why do so many people educated in this century think of classical Greece as the first major culture when written language was in use and great cities built at least twenty-five centuries before that time? And perhaps most important, why is it continually inferred that the age of the "pagan" religions, the time of the worship of female deities (if mentioned at all), was dark and chaotic, mysterious and evil, without the light of order and reason that supposedly accompanied the later male religions, when it has been archaeologically confirmed that the earliest law, government, medicine, agriculture, architecture, metallurgy, wheeled vehicles, ceramics, textiles and written language were initially developed in societies that worshiped the Goddess? We may find ourselves wondering about the reasons for the lack of easily available information on societies who, for thousands of years, worshiped the ancient Creatress of the Universe.
Merlin Stone
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.
Merlin Stone
The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.
Michaelangelo
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso
As when, O lady mine,With chiselled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mould,The more the marble wastes,The more the statue grows.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone,While pain and guilt still linger here below,Blindness and numbness--these please me alone;Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
I have found that the only consolation is never regretting anything that you do. Never look back, always look forward and continue moving along with a confidence that everything you’re doing and everything you’ve done is the way it’s supposed to be.
Randolph J. Rogers
I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.
Georg Baselitz
I am in the world to change the world
Käthe Kollwitz
It takes a very long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Henri Matisse
God is really only 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
Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.
Eric Gill
Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt
Christian Boltanski
Truth must be found in reality, not systems.
Joseph Beuys
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Pablo Picasso
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
Auguste Rodin
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Pablo Picasso
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso