Quotes by Sculptors - Page 3

There's nothing more difficult than a line.
Pablo Picasso
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
If only we correct our eating habits than not only we would have perfect body weight but also we can get rid of most of the diseases.- Subodh Gupta , author "7 food habits for weight loss forever".
Subodh Gupta
The greatest artist does not have any conceptWhich a single piece of marble does not itself containWithin its excess, though onlyA hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
Henri Matisse
Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.
Amedeo Modigliani
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into sun.
Pablo Picasso
On need of supplement & vitamins- "If you eat a balanced diet you get all the vitamins and minerals you need and you don’t need any supplement and overdosing can actually be more harmful.
Subodh Gupta
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
Henry Moore
I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.
Jasper Johns
Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
Pablo Picasso
No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
Pablo Picasso
Truth exists. Only lies are invented.
Georges Braque
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
Pablo Picasso
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating rejuvenating exciting and satisfying.
Käthe Kollwitz
Art is either revolution or plagiarism
Paul Gauguin
Love is the fertile ground that allows obedience to sprout & flourish
Lazarus Takawira
I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.
Pablo Picasso
Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!
Paul Gauguin
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a confusion, or a freedom.
Jasper Johns
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
Eric Gill
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.
Paul Gauguin
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
It takes a very long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
When you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are rich and famous you still have a few ... if you are lucky.
Pablo Picasso
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Henri Matisse
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.
Benvenuto Cellini
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.
Claes Oldenburg
Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Pablo Picasso
My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.
Jasper Johns
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone
Pablo Picasso
We were created to look at one another, weren't we
Edgar Degas
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable.
Louise Nevelson
I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.
Jasper Johns
What matters is what appears in your soul, not what your eyes see and what you can name.
Zdzisław Beksiński
Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.
Eric Gill
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
Henri Matisse
Life is full of issues no matter what social status you enjoy in society, only the nature of issue would be different. You solve one issue, other would come and they would be keep on coming till you are alive. This is a reality and nobody can escape from this truth.-Subodh Gupta author, "Stress Management a Holistic Approach -5 steps Plan".
Subodh Gupta
The spotlight does not change a person, it simply reveals what one has mastered in the darkness
Lazarus Takawira
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
I take the opportunity each day offers.
Andy Goldsworthy
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
Louise Nevelson
My soul today Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.
Thomas B. Read
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse
When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water. Well, I've tried to express just that. If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirits.
Constantin Brancusi
I want to be famous but unknown!
Edgar Degas
Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso