Famous quotes by Sculptors

"China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression"

"Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view"

"To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them"

"The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job"

"Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting"

"I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture"

"The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology"

"There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis"

"There are very few people who do what I do"

"My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance"

"Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist"

"I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects"

"With Andy Cole up front they can score at any time. We'll be watching him very closely"

"The teams who play against us don't give us any gifts, but we were too kind"

"True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure"

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely"

"With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts"

"It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered"

"To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth"

"The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others"

"Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump"

"That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it"

"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself"

"To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete"

"To know one thing, you must know the opposite"

"Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair"

"If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all"

"Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it"

"Charlton are a team who play well on the ball, but they found it hard to break us down, they didn't really have an out and out chance in front of our goal"

"To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature"