#sculpt

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#art #hangs #hard #modern #modern art

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#inhabited #sculpture

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. ↗

— Michelangelo

#kind #like #looks #painting #sculpture

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#hole #lump #sculpture

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital. ↗

— Anthony Caro

#in other words #other #respond #sculpture #sees

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#art-theory #creativity #design #emotion #matisse

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt ↗

— Christian Boltanski

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