Anthony Caro Quotes

#1. I want to be bruised by God.
I want to be strung up in a strong light and singled out.
I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed.
I want to be entered and picked clean.

Charles Wright

#2. Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.

Anthony Caro

#3. Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from it and transformed it, and that had led on to the next one and the next.

Anthony Caro

#4. Your mind will give back exactly what you put into it.

James Joyce

#5. Let the work speak for itself.

Anthony Caro

#6. Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.

Anthony Caro

#7. What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

Amelia Barr

#8. The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

William Wordsworth

#9. I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#10. I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

Daniel Radcliffe

#11. Treat your career as a business. Invest your earnings into good tools that can enhance your business. Film businesses are the same as non-film businesses. Ploughing part of your earnings back into your filmmaking business would grow career exponentially.

Elliot Grove

#12. For once I am living my life rather than watching it pass in review.

Lee Smith

#13. But I think, maybe, I won't look back at what you highlighted, because I won't need to. I want to read all the way to the end with you.

Mary Ann Rivers

#14. For Mercy has a human heart
Pity, a human face:
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.

William Blake

#15. Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang! you're there: it's so direct. I think Manet was very direct, he didn't prepare his canvases like Courbet, he just put paint straight on and it's very like that with steel.

Anthony Caro

#16. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Romans 3:28

Martin Luther

#17. It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.

Nicolas Cage

#18. So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

Anthony Caro

#19. But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

Anthony Caro