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

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.
Philip Guston

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Robert Smithson

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
Gertrude Stein

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
Auguste Rodin

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Pablo Picasso

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

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
Anish Kapoor

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.
Richard MacDonald

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

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.
Ben Shahn

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.
Marc Newson

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

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

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
Robert Smithson

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.
Moses Mendelssohn

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.
Basil Bunting

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
Roger Vadim