78 Quotes About Sculpture

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed, but woke the next morningelated for another try.

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.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

All probabilities havestacked up to this imminent form, andall causes have aligned according tothis pathway and not another. I couldotherwise have been another complexof particles, another material altogether,and perhaps also another form, for howmuch does the material influence thefingers that shape it? Does the materialsimilarly shape the whims of itssculptor?

Stones dream of shapes they might become. The sculptor has but to listen.

What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate it through painting or sculpture, or through fatherhood, until a second such face could be born.

Sometimes I feel that the source of a sculpture's energy comes from the effort of trying to regain a sense of balance lost at some point when I lacked control or concentration or perhaps made an error of judgment.Such moments happen all the time in the making of a sculpture. Not to experience uncertainty or to make no mistakes would in a sense render the making of a sculpture pointless. Any new work should challenge my understanding of both how and why a sculpture should be made.

Fear always accompanies the making of art, generated by the shock of seeing an idea taking its form. A sculpture in the mind is safe and secure--the actual work rarely behaves as intended.

My art helps make sense of things.