Quotes on 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

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

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

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

The more the marble wastes,_x000D_ The more the statue grows.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

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

Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother of art, music, poetry, dance, sculpture. All that is creative, all that is life-affirmative, is born out of meditation. All that is life-negative - hate, anger, jealousy, violence, war - is born out of the mind. Man has two possibilities: mind and meditation.

The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.