#sculpture

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started. ↗

— Marc Newson

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. ↗

— Paul Klee

#compositions #expression #forms #further #life

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

#against #answer #art #artist #asked

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

— Aristide Maillol

#express #i #i am #myself #poet

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

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

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#art #hangs #hard #modern #modern art

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital. ↗

— Anthony Caro

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