Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?
Being an artist is celebrating life.
To be an artist is to believe in life.
Everything I do is intended to be big.
The important thing is somehow to begin.
There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
All art is an abstraction to some degree.
People think that they see, but they don't.
Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.
I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.
The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
There is a right physical size for every idea.
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume.
I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.
Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.
Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.
I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.
Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.
You leave space for the body, imagining the other part even though it isn't there.
You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.
If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.
Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.
I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.
A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.
The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my aims in particular.
The hole connects one side to the other, making it immediately more three-dimensional. A hole can itself have as much shape-meaning as a solid mass.
I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.
I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.
There are universal shapes to which everybody is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off.
The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life.
A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.
