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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.
When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.
No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.
The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.
The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.
Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.
The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.
Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.
The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.
The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.
Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
Turns out it's bloody hard to make a sculpture that looks like a human head, so I've not bothered. Realism is for squares.
I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.
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.
Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear....these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry.
I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.
Some psychiatrist told me I was interested in sculpture because I dealt in flat surfaces and needed something with dimension.
From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.
I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.
My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.
I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.
I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.
I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.
Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.
To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.
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 learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my aims in particular.
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.
There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.
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.
Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And theres only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.