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There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through — Dan Rice

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. — Herbert Spencer

Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. — Walter Savage Landor

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. — Wesley W. Bates

It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening. — Kenneth Goldsmith

Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair? — Lord Byron

Whatever art--writing, painting, sculpture, acting, dance, music, or any other--there will be frustration & travails. It's all worth it — Mark Rubinstein

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality. — Louisa May Alcott

I am a she. The mask is a he, or is actually gender-neutral. People love the character. — K. Guillory

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends. — Gloria Swanson

With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams. — Umberto Boccioni

Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love. — James Taylor

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art. — Umberto Boccioni

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. — Pablo Picasso

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share. — Rashid Johnson

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness ... — Isamu Noguchi

Sculpture occupies real space like we do ... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object. — Chuck Close

A sculpture of marriage, marriage come alive. Lancelot — Lauren Groff

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think? — Jonathan Hull

My drawings are the result of my sculpture. — Auguste Rodin

He was sculpting me. He was trying to make me so he could fall in love with me .. — Jonathan Safran Foer

When a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry. — Sybil Marshall

Where the material ends, art begins. — Etienne Hajdu

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting. — Richard MacDonald

Your life is a sculpture, every day chip away. — J.R. Rim

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it. — Carl Andre

The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time
music and poetry
and not the arts of space
sculpture and painting. — Salvador De Madariaga

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair. — Anthony Caro

A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it. — John Chamberlain

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it? — Constantin Brancusi

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really. — Kate Bush

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words. — Michael Craig-Martin

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Every salad you serve is a picture you have painted, a sculpture you have modeled, a drama you have created. — Carol Truax

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. — Frank Stella

The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up ... so the next stage is hard work — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. — Roy Blount Jr.

I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture. — Ruth Bernhard

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy ... — Auguste Rodin

A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking. — Michelangelo

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch. — Richard Artschwager

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter. — Edith Wharton

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in. — Henry Moore

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

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. — Joan Didion

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture ... — Paul Cezanne

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also. — Ellsworth Kelly

My sculpture thrives in the context of the city, interacting with people in the course of their daily lives. — Janet Echelman

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow. — Hans Arp

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture. — Robert Rauschenberg

The skull is nature's sculpture. — David Bailey

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking. — Michelangelo

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is. — Thomas Hoving

I love looking at sculpture, but there's some sort of spell that's broken with it. — Joe Bradley

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction. — Henry Moore

Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo. — Stephane Rolland

Chairs are like sculpture. — Robert Wilson

I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way. — Chuck Close

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

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

In poetry we pare down our thoughts into their most graceful shapes, like minimalist sculptures. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

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

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white. — Mary E. Pearson

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape. — James Howell

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. — John Ruskin

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture. — Louise Bourgeois

Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment. — Erol Ozan

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. — Ezra Pound

Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose. — Stanley Elkin

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding. — Michelangelo

I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time. — Conor Oberst

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

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body. — Anish Kapoor

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. — Martin Puryear

If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything, — Anish Kapoor

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. — Joseph Addison

When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color. — Joan Didion

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. — Louis L'Amour

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture. — William Shatner

What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal ... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting. — Ad Reinhardt

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture. — Louise Bourgeois

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head. — Rudolf Steiner

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway. — Joe Bradley

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt — Christian Boltanski

Moonlight is sculpture. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump. — Auguste Rodin

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet. — Aristide Maillol

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created. — Piet Mondrian

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance. — Tim Berners-Lee