Quotes on Sculpting

Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!