Metalwork Quotes

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.

Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.

It's always interesting to see how we're able to, with craftsmanship... to bring these cool sustainable materials, cool metals, into the House of Marley and keeping that sustainable movement as well.

This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails

The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.

The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead.

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

I have friends who are blacksmiths in the north of Scotland, so I took a few master classes with, them. I loved learning a new skill. I will never look at a piece of wrought iron the same way now. I can now make semi-decent knife blades and candlesticks myself.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

I like to sew, and I am into bending metal and making industrial jewelry. I sew a lot of my own clothes and customize stuff.

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

I want to learn to weld.

I was welding art from my house, making abstract figures out of metal.

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

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.

I love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design.

Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.

All bronzes are made to be touched. Bronze is a sensual 'living' material. The sweat and oil of your palms adds to the patination.

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too.