78 Quotes About Sculpture

A tension develops between what I want and what is emerging. This tension is important to the feeling of the piece.

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.

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

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.

All good work looks perfectly modern: a piece of Greek sculpture, a portrait of Velasquez—they are always modern, always of our time.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.