#sculpture

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#close friends #family #friends #personal #sculpture

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object. ↗

— Chuck Close

#another #around #like #object #occupies

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#back #british #british government #cared #centuries

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#art #building #certain #certain point #decided

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures. ↗

— George Segal

#around #could #even #everything #fence

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

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

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#anywhere #could #go #near #people

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman. ↗

— Roger Vadim

#film #make #me #rodin #sculpture