#sculpture

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet. ↗

— Aristide Maillol

#express #i #i am #myself #poet

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#arts #been #birth #dance #decline

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#art #auditory #because #certain #depend

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#inhabited #sculpture

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

— Christian Boltanski

#artist #death #sculpture #truth #art

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#beauty #math #mathematics #sculpture #art

If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception. ↗

— Richard Serra

#sculpture #serra #temporal #education

As Henry Moore carved or modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello 4. and failed, but woke the next morning elated for another try. ↗

— Donald Hall

#donatello #effort #failure #henry-moore #poem

I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see. ↗

— Alan Vega

#i #sculptures #see #showing #some

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#air #into #performance #sculpted #sculpture