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Quotes by Sculptor
"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated."
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"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."
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"I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing."
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"I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity."
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"It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club."
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"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."
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"In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist."
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"The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others."
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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."
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"I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager."
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"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."
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"The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology."
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"When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man."
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"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
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"But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing."
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"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."
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"In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever."
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"Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away."
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"When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it."
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"If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses."
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"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."
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"My aim is for ripeness of form. I want to make my forms so full, so juicy that one could add nothing more to them."
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"There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect."
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"Of every noble work the silent part is best, of all expression that which can not be expressed."
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