#sculpture

The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though only A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it. ↗

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

#sculpture #art

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own. ↗

— Basil Bunting

#common #jug #kind #listen #look

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#gravity #logical #makes #more #painting

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#anywhere #could #go #near #people

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#change #did #firstly #give #huge

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#build #conversation #genuine #i #i tried

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman. ↗

— Roger Vadim

#film #make #me #rodin #sculpture

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

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#art #auditory #because #certain #depend

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#art #continues #finished #habit #painting