Definition of Sculpture

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Sculpture

The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.

Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.

To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.

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Sculpture Quotations

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Pablo Picasso

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

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo

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

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

Moonlight is sculpture.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

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

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

Sculpture Translations

sculpture in Dutch is uithouwen, beeldhouwen, uithakken
sculpture in French is sculpture
sculpture in Spanish is escultura
sculpture in Swedish is skulptut, skulptera, skulptur

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