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Quotes by Sculptor
"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."
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"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."
40
"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight."
39
"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."
39
"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."
38
"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."
38
"If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses."
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"It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club."
37
"I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager."
36
"I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded."
35
"What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant."
35
"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."
34
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
34
"When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it."
33
"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."
33
"The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses."
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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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"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."
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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."
28
"The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living."
27
"The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art."
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