Top Sculpture Quotes
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa
My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
Gloria Swanson
Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.
Marc Newson
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.
Tom Stoppard
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
Jacques Lipchitz
All Sculpture Quotes
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa 
82% of people like this quote
My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
Gloria Swanson 
73% of people like this quote
Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.
Marc Newson 
62% of people like this quote
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.
Tom Stoppard 
59% of people like this quote
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
Jacques Lipchitz 
58% of people like this quote
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 
57% of people like this quote
So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.
Anthony Caro 
56% of people like this quote
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Robert Smithson 
55% of people like this quote
But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
Anthony Caro 
54% of people like this quote
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