#sculpture

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

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

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures. ↗

— George Segal

#around #could #even #everything #fence

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

#blob #clay #cuddle #love #night

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

They stared at her together for a moment. Sun beams played over marble, making the pink alabaster glow as if rosy blood danced just under the surface of Aphrodite's skin. ↗

— Eloisa James

#love