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You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer
I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.
The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.
I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler
I have always had a bob haircut because my hair is so fine and doesn't like being long.
I love the round, the curves, the undulation, the world is round, the world is a breast
I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal.
I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.
The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.
I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.
I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.
I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.
My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
A pun, like champagne, loses its sparkle when too long drawn out. Its flash is its savor.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.
Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.
I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color in a way they have never experienced.
Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.
Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me!
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.
In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.
Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.
The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.
But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.