A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
Frank Stella

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.
Jacques Lipchitz

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.
Richard Serra

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
Steven Pinker

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Martin Puryear

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

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Ezra Pound

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.
Isabelle Huppert

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo

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

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.
Robert Rauschenberg

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.
Jimmy Carl Black

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

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.
Chico Hamilton

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.
Bruce Nauman

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
Tom Stoppard

Moonlight is sculpture.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
Gloria Swanson