“Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.”
William Plomer
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it”
Michelangelo
“Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as ''salon art.'' Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.”
Walter Gropius
“I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.”
Leonard Slatkin
“The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.”
Ezra Pound
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed--it is a process of elimination.”
Elbert Hubbard
“It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.”
Henry Moore
