Anthony Caro Quotes

Size counts. That's all.

Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.

MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.

Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.

Mathematics is the language of size.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

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.

The Universe is very, very big.

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.

It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.

We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

The other, the other aspect when I say I'm an actor is that as an actor you make this imaginative leap into being somebody else, that's to say the muscle of the imagination is as important as any other of the muscles in your body, and so it is something about this instinct in space and time which for me I associate with being an actor rather than a director.

I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music, you’re creating a space. You’re building a room, putting some objects in it, and seeing what happens to the objects over time.’

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.