Sculptors Quotes

Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?

[I am not for] spending the public money in the encouragement of the Fine Arts. Whether it is to be painting or sculpture, or both; if painting, what sort of painting, what are to be the subjects chosen, and who are to be the artists employed? All these questions furnish ample food for discussion, difference, and dispute.

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

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

Ah." He set down his backpack and pulled out their notebook. "You're working on your final project?" "Indirectly," Cath said. "What does that mean?" "Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don't actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn't the object?" "No." He sat down. "Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind.

Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.