Pastoral Resources

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

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

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

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

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.

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.