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Sculptor Inspirational Quotes (6125)

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My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
Andy Goldsworthy
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If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.
Salvador Dali
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
Yoko Ono
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed they are all in Paris to arrange it.
Camille Claudel
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Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.
Douglas Coupland
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You should do something that will make your heart dance once a day. If you can't do that because you're too depressed, then do something that will make somebody else's heart dance.
Yoko Ono
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I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.
Hedda Sterne
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I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.
Egon Schiele
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When I hear music, my body just starts to move. It has nothing to do with training or anything. That's just me. That's just my body. And I was like that as a child, too.
Yoko Ono
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.
Rebecca Miller
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There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.
Peter Drucker
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I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.
Yoko Ono
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
Douglas Coupland
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I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.
Elaine de Kooning
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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.
Ai Weiwei
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to keep on the right track.
Robert Rauschenberg
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The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.
Michael Snow
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There is the general belief that the corporation income tax is a tax on the rich and on the fat cats. But with pension funds owning 30% of American large business-and soon to own 50%-the corporation income tax, in effect, eases the load on those in top income brackets and penalizes the beneficiaries of pension funds.
Peter Drucker
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I never really separated painting and literature.
Cy Twombly
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I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
Jeff Koons
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There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
William Trevor
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Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
Jasper Johns
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