#sculpture

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

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

— Aristide Maillol

#express #i #i am #myself #poet

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. ↗

— Michelangelo

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Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#hole #lump #sculpture

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see. ↗

— Alan Vega

#i #sculptures #see #showing #some

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#air #into #performance #sculpted #sculpture

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#expression #i #parts #play #sculptures

I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#actually #body #capture #dancer #essence