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Sculptures Quotes

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life Picture Quote #1

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work Picture Quote #1

No, women like you don’t write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness Picture Quote #1

A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves Picture Quote #1

As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces of sculptures and ruined statues of gods as the barbarians did Picture Quote #1

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls Picture Quote #1

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I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy Picture Quote #1

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them Picture Quote #1

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around Picture Quote #1

There could be a powerful international women’s rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women Picture Quote #1

I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It’s like a collage Picture Quote #1

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model Picture Quote #1

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Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It’s to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale Picture Quote #1

My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival Picture Quote #1

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures Picture Quote #1

There are two kinds of sculptures. There’s the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on Picture Quote #1

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures Picture Quote #1

We may build more splendid habitations, fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures, but we cannot buy with gold the old associations Picture Quote #1

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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again Picture Quote #1

My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face Picture Quote #1

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All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life (Sculptures Quotes) I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work (Sculptures Quotes) No, women like you don’t write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness (Sculptures Quotes) A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves (Sculptures Quotes) As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces of sculptures and ruined statues of gods as the barbarians did (Sculptures Quotes) Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls (Sculptures Quotes) I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy (Sculptures Quotes) Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them (Sculptures Quotes) I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around (Sculptures Quotes) There could be a powerful international women’s rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women (Sculptures Quotes) I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It’s like a collage (Sculptures Quotes) At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model (Sculptures Quotes) Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It’s to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale (Sculptures Quotes) My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival (Sculptures Quotes) Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures (Sculptures Quotes) There are two kinds of sculptures. There’s the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on (Sculptures Quotes) Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures (Sculptures Quotes) We may build more splendid habitations, fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures, but we cannot buy with gold the old associations (Sculptures Quotes) That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again (Sculptures Quotes) My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face (Sculptures Quotes)

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