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Quotes by Sculptor
"They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is."
5
"A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance."
5
"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!"
5
"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."
5
"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."
4
"But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair."
4
"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!"
4
"I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's."
4
"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,
4
"I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here."
4
"It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club."
4
"If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day."
4
"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."
4
"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."
4
"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."
3
"Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing."
3
"In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession."
3
"Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do."
3
"Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away."
3
"My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town."
Will,
3
"When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it."
3
"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."
3
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