sculpture quotes

I’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

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

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.