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Sculptor Inspirational Quotes (6125)

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Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.
William Morris Hunt
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Imagination comes in after we have experience.
William Morris Hunt
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Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.
William Morris Hunt
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Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.
William Morris Hunt
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Don't talk of what you are 'going to do!' Do it!
William Morris Hunt
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What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!
William Morris Hunt
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There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!
William Morris Hunt
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Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement of the whole. Don't have more than one movement in a figure you can't patch parts together. Simple lines then simple values. Establish the fact of the whole. Is it square, oblong, cube, or what is it?
William Morris Hunt
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They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.
Kate Millett
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A great artist has to be ready to fail.
Marina Abramovic
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If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.
Michael Craig-Martin
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If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.
Pierre Soulages
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
Douglas Coupland
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When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
Alberto Giacometti
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I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.
Dennis Hopper
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Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.
Edward Tufte
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A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
Robert Smithson
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I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.
Marcel Duchamp
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When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.
Dale Chihuly
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Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
Sol LeWitt
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I think we need a huge dose of love.
Ala Bashir
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Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.
Ala Bashir
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I have to display what I have seen to people.
Ala Bashir
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