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In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.
Hans Arp
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Sculptor
Air
Spiritual
Struggle
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I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.
Janet Echelman
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Sculptor
Assistants
Consultants
Engineers
Landscape
Lighting
Pay
Plus
Two
Architects
Designers
Full-Time
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It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
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Sculptor
Challenges
Easy
Risk
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The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.
Michelangelo
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Sculptor
Goal
People
Sight
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As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
Michelangelo
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Sculptor
Inspiration
Sculpture
Stones
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Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.
Naum Gabo
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Sculptor
Art
Philosophical
Philosophy
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But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization.
Joe Fafard
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Sculptor
Clay
Looks
Portraiture
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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin
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Sculptor
Art
Inspirational
Motivational
Smile
Animated
Contemplation
Creativity
Pleasure
Spirit
Herself
Searches
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I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.
Auguste Rodin
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Sculptor
Artist
Doe
Emotion
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I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.
Henry Moore
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Sculptor
Drawing
Ideas
Sculpture
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I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.
Michelangelo
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Sculptor
Artist
Eccentric
Talent
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I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.
Michelangelo
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Sculptor
Jesus
Giving
Soul
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If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.
Antony Gormley
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Sculptor
Comprehension
Work Your People
Beyond
Brush
Engage
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I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.
Henry Moore
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Sculptor
Art
Grateful
School
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What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror
Anish Kapoor
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Sculptor
Darkness
Interest
Sublime
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One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury
Anish Kapoor
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Sculptor
Aesthetic
Doe
Luxury
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We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.
Antony Gormley
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Sculptor
Art
Eye
Moving
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I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.
Antony Gormley
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Sculptor
Apprehension
Human Beings
Proportion
Related
Scale
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The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin
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Sculptor
Art
Artist
Born
Consumed
Creativity
Fire
Ready
Create
Spark
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The sexual is part of everything, and it's highly formalized. I hadn't done figure for a long time. And I thought to myself, "Why not the erotic figure?"
Claes Oldenburg
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Sculptor
Erotic
Long
Why Not
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Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images.
Eduardo Paolozzi
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Sculptor
Technology
Doctors
Order
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One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.
Anish Kapoor
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Sculptor
Aesthetic
Immense
Luxury
Oneself
Life Day Every Day
All Day
Studio
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What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
Anish Kapoor
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Sculptor
Principal
Subjects
Terror
Carry
Interests
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
Camille Claudel
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Sculptor
Fire
Hammers
Squash
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I try to avoid the 'art world' as much as possible. It's too much about fads and fashions - who's getting the best prices at auction and things like that.
Cornelia Parker
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Sculptor
Art World
Fads
Auction
Avoid
Fashions
Prices
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I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
John Chamberlain
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Sculptor
Art
Junk
Thinking
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It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
Anish Kapoor
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Sculptor
Blessing
Boredom
Host
Moments
Trying
Anywhere
Somewhere
Drives
Possibilities
Precisely
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Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened.
Claes Oldenburg
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Sculptor
Art
Drug
Important
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There are universal shapes to which everybody is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off.
Henry Moore
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Sculptor
Conscious
Shapes
Conditioned
Respond
Shut
Subconsciously
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I make things complicated for myself and chaotic, so I feel unsettled, and then the challenge is to make something structured and complete emerge from that.
Jessica Stockholder
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Sculptor
Chaotic
Emerge
Structured
Unsettled
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The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
Michelangelo
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Sculptor
Block
Inspiration
Sculpture
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It's a wonderful thing to make work that is unadorned either by context, framing or label, that can exist in the changing conditions of light, weather, wind.
Antony Gormley
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Sculptor
Conditions
Framing
Light
Weather
Wind
Wonderful
Changing
Context
Exist
Either
Label
Wonderful Thing
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
Camille Claudel
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Sculptor
Squash
Figure
Hammer
Studies
Threw
Unpleasant
Wax
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My parents were always doubtful about my making a living as an artist. Even when I was up for the Turner Prize, my mum suggested I apply for a curator's job.
Cornelia Parker
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Sculptor
Curator
Doubtful
Making A Living
Mum
Prize
Turner
Apply
Suggested
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At my degree show, someone said, 'It's nice, but it's very feminine.' I said, thank you, taking it as a compliment, but they obviously meant it as an insult.
Cornelia Parker
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Sculptor
Thank You
Compliment
Feminine
Insult
Meant
Degree
Obviously
Thank
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My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.
Cornelia Parker
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Sculptor
Threads
Viewer
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The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life.
Henry Moore
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Sculptor
Quality
Common
Direct
Intense
Made
Primitive
Response
Vitality
Life Art People
Immediate
Immediate Response
Striking
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I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to
Anish Kapoor
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Sculptor
Lines
Two
Years
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I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.
Benvenuto Cellini
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Sculptor
Art
Drawing
Eight
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On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
Richard Serra
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Sculptor
Capes
Core
Hands
Sea
All My Life
Life Poetry My Life
Cape
Underlying
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I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.
Richard Serra
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Sculptor
Action
Catalogues
Walking
Catalogue
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I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.
Anish Kapoor
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Sculptor
Empty
Series
Studio
Throw
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I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.
Camille Claudel
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Sculptor
Believe
Naked
Sleep
Wake Up
Deceive
Same Thing
Wake
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I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.
Camille Claudel
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Sculptor
Bohemia
Cost
Effort
Ordinary
Successful
Huge Amount
Piece
Preferred
Sending
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A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.
Henry Moore
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Sculptor
Art
Sculpture
Shapes
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A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Jacob Epstein
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Sculptor
Break Out
Dog
Sheep
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I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.
Claes Oldenburg
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Sculptor
Architecture
Building
Real
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... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.
Cornelia Parker
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Sculptor
Jobs
Doe
Enough
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My mother was German, and I was brought up with 'Struwwelpeter' stories, which are invested with all sorts of horrors waiting for you if you do the wrong thing.
Cornelia Parker
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Sculptor
German
Horrors
Invested
Wrong Thing
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Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
Edmonia Lewis
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Sculptor
Girl
Defects
Praise
Teach
I Am Me Will
Me I Am Will
Colored
Point
Rather
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