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Quotes by Sculptor
"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!"
19
"My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town."
Will,
19
"But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair."
17
"The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts."
17
"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect."
17
"I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!"
17
"I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's."
16
"I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here."
16
"I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work."
16
"Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important."
Time,
15
"Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease."
15
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him."
14
"And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone."
Time,
14
"But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play."
14
"Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing."
13
"Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do."
13
"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."
12
"I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object."
12
"But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be."
12
"Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience."
11
"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight."
11
"One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know."
11
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