#sculptor

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. ↗

— Michelangelo

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With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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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

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

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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

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