#sculptor

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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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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I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

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I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

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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 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

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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. ↗

— Henry Moore

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It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. ↗

— Henry Moore

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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

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So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

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