#sculpt

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own. ↗

— Federico Chini

#inspiration #sculpturing #writing #imagination

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing. ↗

— Xander Berkeley

#because #direct #done #films #i

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#formulas #god #i #joy #look

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

— Chuck Close

#another #around #like #object #occupies

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#charge #day #end #every #fashion

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#build #complete #could #everything #further

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

— Marcel Marceau

#essence #gesture #important #mime #represent

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#back #british #british government #cared #centuries

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #artist #author #autobiography #character

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#art #building #certain #certain point #decided