(76 quotes found)
“This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.”
Malcolm Miller
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture”
Bertrand Russell
“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.”
Pablo Picasso
“Moonlight is sculpture.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone”
Michelangelo
“Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“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
“There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”
Frank Zappa
“The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
