#sculpt

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#creative #final #guides #i #i think

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#form #i #i think #job #much

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#around #context #deliberately #i #i am

The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though only A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it. ↗

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

#sculpture #art

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own. ↗

— Basil Bunting

#common #jug #kind #listen #look

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#cannot #himself #man #marble #remake

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#far #field #great #i #i do

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe. ↗

— Tom Ford

#dog #go #hand #i #live

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe. ↗

— Philip Guston

#archaic #brains #forms #hands #heart

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#gravity #logical #makes #more #painting