top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Sculptor
"They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things."
98
"In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it."
83
"I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand."
79
"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
76
"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them."
42
"You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting."
41
"There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning."
40
"Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things."
38
"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself."
35
"I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see."
34
"When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left."
34
"I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it."
34
"I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!"
33
"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."
33
"I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year."
33
"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."
32
"You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!"
31
"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'."
31
"The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts."
30
"They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is."
30
"My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six."
30
"A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference."
29
"I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure."
Fire,
29
"I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there."
28
"My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town."
Will,
28
"To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen."
Hope,
27
"Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing."
26
"I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me."
26
bottom of page