Quotes About Sculpting

#1. I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive.

John Musker

#2. Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

Laurie Halse Anderson

#3. He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.

Dan Fogelberg

#4. Using the right colour is the most important thing. When sculpting is well done, it just looks like you have great brows.

Gigi Hadid

#5. When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

Rudolf Steiner

#6. I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics.

Richard MacDonald

#7. Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren't commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

Ann Voskamp

#8. Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#9. I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

James Horner

#10. Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

Dan Fogler

#12. I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.

Rick Baker

#13. I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.

Philippe Petit

#14. I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.

Shirley Eaton

#15. I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It still sits on my table and still inspires me. He was a person who triggered my imagination and my ideas.

Vandana Shiva

#16. He was sculpting me. He was trying to make me so he could fall in love with me ..

Jonathan Safran Foer

#17. Everyone knows how creative the Scots are.
They're always sculpting, painting, singing songs, & writing plays.
They invented television, the telephone, & deep-fried Mars bars.

David Baillie

#18. I'm grateful for past betrayals, heartaches, and challenges ... I thought they were breaking me; but they were sculpting me.

Steve Maraboli

#19. I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

Juan Felipe Herrera

#20. Perversion is just another form of art. It's like painting or drawing or sculpting. Except instead of paint, us perverts use sex as our medium.

C.M. Stunich

#21. Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.

Nicolas Provost

#22. For a while, I just thought that I wanted to be an illustrator because that's all I wanted to do. I also did some sculpting. It was always very artsy and very feminine, everything that I did.

Jason Wu

#23. I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.

Mitch Hedberg

#24. Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

Michelangelo

#25. Optimal sculpting of key neural networks through healthy early relationships allows us to think well of ourselves, trust others, regulate our emotions, maintain positive expectations, and utilize our intellectual and emotional intelligence in moment-to-moment

Louis Cozolino

#26. Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Sydney Pollack

#27. He turns back to me, a strong hand swooping down and sculpting hair off my face, familiar looking arms curling back around me and cradling me into a chest harder and hotter than a mountain left baking in the Australian outback.

Poppet

#28. A closed mouth gathers no foot.
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

David Gries

#29. I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.

Philippe Petit

#30. And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content. Truman with his sculpting and building the recreation center. Lynne writing poems occasionally, reading them to her friends, then tearing them up.

Alice Walker

#31. I love the creation of these things - I love the sculpting, I love the coloring. Half the joy is fabricating the world, the creatures.

Guillermo Del Toro

#32. I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

Anthony Quinn

#33. And I really loved sculpting. My brother and I would do full human figures with clay and Plasticine - liver, intestines, the heart - fill them with ketchup and throw them from the roof. So I was an artistic but very morbid kid.

Guillermo Del Toro

#34. When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel.

Elizabeth McCracken

#35. I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.

Brad Pitt

#36. From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also encourage individuals to sharpen their skills and to nurture their imagination and intellect.

George W. Bush

#37. You do not need to be writing or painting or sculpting in order to be creative. You must simply create.

David Levithan

#38. Living is art.
Breathing and heart beating is music.
Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.
Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.
Life is the most intense art of all.

Jacob Nordby

#39. My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area.

John Lasseter

#40. I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake ... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

Gina Lollobrigida

#41. I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control.

Pattie Maes

#42. With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.

Channing Tatum

#43. The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.

Jacques Barzun

#44. My secret world of bosom sculpting is crashing down around me. I'm destined for bra-stuffing rehab in a distant boobicus minimus land. I just know it.

Amy Holder

#45. Why would anyone even bring up the issue (of the statues) in a country where there are more than 10 state-owned institutions that teach sculpting and more than 20 others that teach the history of art?

Gamal El-Ghitani

#46. We really need a new world order. I refuse to believe that nature takes joy and pleasure in sculpting the young and rich

S.A. David

#47. Islanders too
are for sculpting.

Seamus Heaney

#48. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpting is you.

Joe Vitale

#49. You want to become aware of your thoughts, you want to choose your thoughts carefully and you want to have fun with this, because you are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David that you are sculpting is you. And you do it with your thoughts.

Joe Vitale

#50. Earth was the shorthand name for the classroom studio, named Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Spirit. Megan thought the alchemical name was especially appropriate for the art of sculpting, since the medium utilized all of those things.

Beth Kery

#51. Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

Edward Weston

#52. Your life is a sculpture, every day chip away.

J.R. Rim

#53. As Henry Moore carved
or modelled his sculpture every day,
he strove to surpass Donatello
4. and failed, but woke the next morning
elated for another try.

Donald Hall

#54. The rocks were really big around the mountains and at times some rocks seemed as if they had been sculpted by some unknown artist.

Avijeet Das

#55. In poetry we pare down our thoughts into their most graceful shapes, like minimalist sculptures.

Patricia Robin Woodruff

#56. Just stop worrying about it," she said quietly. "Just let the stone be what it wants to be. You can't control everything, you know.

Danika Stone