#sculpt

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#away #beautiful #block #chipping #elimination

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#different #greek #i #sculptor #think

Earth was the shorthand name for the classroom studio, named Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Spirit. Megan thought the alchemical name was especially appropriate for the art of sculpting, since the medium utilized all of those things. ↗

— Beth Kery

#art

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet. ↗

— Aristide Maillol

#express #i #i am #myself #poet

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone. ↗

— Michelangelo

#artist #best #break #contained #figures

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion. ↗

— Kate Millett

#beautiful #form #kinetic #more #motion

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever. ↗

— Bruce Nauman

#casting #drawing #efficient #efficient way #find

Treat your life like something to be sculpted. ↗

— Larry Niven

#like #sculpted #something #treat #your

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

— Robert Smithson

#art #continues #finished #habit #painting

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

#18th century #20th century #century #finished #finished work