(76 quotes found)
“I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.”
Helen Keller
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture”
Bertrand Russell
“Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.”
Michelangelo
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.”
Joseph Addison
“Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It turns one back to really probably the most important tradition in sculpture, which is commemorating people and providing monuments of one kind or another to their lives and celebrating their return to the other world.”
Richard Hunt
“The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock.”
Jonathan Larsen
“Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.”
Auguste Rodin
“The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.”
Mark Helprin
“There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.”
Melanie Griffith
