#sculpt

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. ↗

— Jacques Lipchitz

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

— Aristide Maillol

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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

#apparently #around #beyond #corner #eye

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

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Every night I cuddle with a blob of unbaked clay I fashioned in the shape of a woman. But that’s what being in love is all about. 
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— Jarod Kintz

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I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.... I should be loving sculpture! But I have not gone deeply into sculpture. Instead, having been utterly insensitive to sculpture, I fill the time that might have been usefully devoted to sculpture with things like drinking and staring into space. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#life #sculpture #seneca #time #love

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#ever #except #get #hell #invented

When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt. ↗

— Rick Baker

#expression #i #i do #into #lot

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#creative #final #guides #i #i think