The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of..

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism..

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most….

What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never re….

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity..

All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particula….

Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was the means of reconciling the majo….

I'm unfortunately very verbose too often..

All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise,….

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 e….

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller..

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power..

Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present..

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is….

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

Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social….

Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist b….

All art is an abstraction to some degree..

All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title takes away part ….

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way..

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..