Favorite Sculpture Quote
 

I recently came across a gem of a site and a quote that has become my new favorite about this art form of ours.
I was wondering if other members had any favorite remarks by artists past or present pertaining to sculpture. Post them if you've got them.

The site I found is: http://quote.robertgenn.com/

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Hi Jason, That's a beaut!

"Everything imagined is reality, the mind cannot conceive of unreal things!"
David Smith.

Have a great day,
Jeff

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This is a paraphrase of a quote, I think by John Singer Sargent;

" A portrait is a face with a smile that isn't quite right"

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Too much mud!... Amadeo Modigliani's reaction to Rodin's influence as quoted by Jacques Lipchitz... The only way to save sculpture was to start carving again, direct carving in stone... Modigliani was working on an ensamble of limestone sculptures at that time...

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" Take something and do something to it. Then do something else to it. " Jasper Johns

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" I have found true art to be at one with true religion " Richard Wagner

" That thing which I understand by real art is the expression by man of his pleasure in labor......especialy is this so when he is at work at anything in which he specially excels. " William Morris

" Oh, when will man again his lax loins gird?
When will he leave soft Circe and her sty
Or learn to labor without looking down?
Thou, thou my country-in a dream I heard
It was thy sons would dare the old sweet sky
And bring back beauty for the earth to crown. "
Wendell Phillips Stafford

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"You're blocking my light!"

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'The artist as an overspecialised aesthetic object maker has been anachronistic for a long time already.' Miwon Kwon

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"If selling a piece is painful, keep adding zeros to the end of the price till it isn't painful to part with it."

Stephen Chambers

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"Talking about art is like french kissing on a telephone." ... Terry Allen

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I think that's my new favourite!

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"Art, for the most part, is about concentration, solitude, and determination. Its really not about other peoples needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful."
Richard Serra

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" Well it might not be right but it sure is late ".

and

" Cheap, Fast, Good, Pick Two ".

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My 2 favourites
"Sculptors aren't stupid like Painters"- Marcel Duchamp
"The important thing is not to look but to see"- Rodin

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"BEING AN ARTIST/SCULPTOR ISN'T WHAT YOU DO, IT'S WHO YOU ARE".

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Oh, this has to be my least favorite quote. Some wiseguy once said to me after asking me what I did for a living, "Oh I know, you make those dust collectors my wife clutters our house with!".........(Ouch!) :eek: :mad:

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In my painting studio about twenty years ago in Houston Texas a very underknown painter by the name of Ron Hoover put forth the best advice to me I had ever heard. I think of these words everyday: "Take it and go!" (pronounced in a barely decipherable Texas drawl, "Takeet'n'go!"

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If anyone has read joseph conrad's preface to Nigger of Narcissus, it is one of my favorite peices of litterature about art. :cool:

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"One who loves a statue loves not the clay, not the plaster or the bronze, but the achievement of the sculptors mind." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"I've seen much finer women, ripe and real, than all the nonsence of their stone ideal." - Lord Byron

"Without freedom, No art; Art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others." - Albert Camus

"An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye."
- Michelangelo

My proffesor always added to the Michelangelo quote by saying "... but only after he's learned to carry them in the hand."

These are just some of my favorites.

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In Carrara, Italy, the sculptor Boutros Romhein can be heard shouting at his studio, day after day, 'Lavolare!, Lavolare!'. That's 'Work! Work!'

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"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. "
Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is no substitute for feeling the stone, the metal, the plaster, or the wood in the hand; to feel its weight; to feel its texture; to struggle with it in the world rather than in the mind alone." (William M. Dupree)

"Within every block of wood and stone, there dwells a spirit, waiting to be released." (Hap Hagood)

"Where the material ends, art begins." (Etienne Hajdu)

"A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things." (Henry Moore)

Mark

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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo

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One eye sees, the other feels!

Paul klee

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The one and only!


Should we stop these bickering?

Merlion

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I think it was Cezanne who said, "sculpture is what you back into when viewing a painting".

From my father, "cut it twice and it's still too short".
To this day I can't work with wood. I work in the land of almost, steel. An almost fit is a perfect fit! Just slap in the weld!

Andy Warhol said this or something like this, "if you can't make it quick, don't make it".
So many people put so much time into their work and never get compensated for it. Course quick is extremely relative.

"A job is the artist's worst enemy".

"Make it big and paint it red."