Sculpture
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
A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.
Henry Moore
The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.
Isamu Noguchi
It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness...
Isamu Noguchi
I paint with shapes.
Alexander Calder
After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.
Leonardo da Vinci
The sculptor's hand can only break the spell and free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo
The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.
Hans Arp
No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.
Eduardo Chillida
Eduardo Chillida
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
Where the material ends, art begins.
Etienne Hajdu
When you slow down enough to sculpt, you discover all kinds of things you never noticed before.
Karen Jobe
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
Anish Kapoor
I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.
Aristide Maillol
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