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Quotes by Sculptor

"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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James Sanborn
"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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"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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Dan Flavin
"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 icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light."
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Dan Flavin
"My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light."
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"Educate the heart. Let us have good men."
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Hiram Powers
"Educate the heart. Let us have good men."
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"My approach to my subjects was very simple. I never had them pose, we just talked about everything in the world."
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Jo Davidson
"My approach to my subjects was very simple. I never had them pose, we just talked about everything in the world."
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"One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find."
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Dan Flavin
"One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find."
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"All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death."
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Jacques Lipchitz
"All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death."
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"One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes."
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Jean Tinguely
"One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes."
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"Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view."
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Jacques Lipchitz
"Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view."
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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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William Wetmore Story
"Of every noble work the silent part is best, of all expression that which can not be expressed."
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"Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity."
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Marino Marini
"Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity."
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"Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition."
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Dan Flavin
"Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition."
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"To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them."
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Marino Marini
"To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them."
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"To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete."
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Jean Tinguely
"To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete."
Art,
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"Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist."
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Jacques Lipchitz
"Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist."
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"The secret of art is love."
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Antoine Bourdelle
"The secret of art is love."
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"Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it."
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Claes Oldenburg
"Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it."
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