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A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.
— Karen Armstrong
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
— Henry Moore
The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer.
— Agona Apell
You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)
— Dennis Oppenheim
A sculptor will more easily extract a beautiful statue from a piece of rough marble than from one that has been badly blocked out by someone else.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
— William James
Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone. — Rumi
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone. — Rumi
Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?
— Lord Byron
I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
— Anish Kapoor
This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there's a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life.
— C.S. Lewis
Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.
— Louise Bourgeois
Development of the love of the beautiful, such as might have made him a poet, a painter, or a sculptor, and which was
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor
— Robert Green Ingersoll
I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.
— Kathleen Quinlan
The aim of the sculptor is to convince us that he is a sculptor; the aim of the orator, is to convince us that he is not an orator.
— G.K. Chesterton
An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials.
— Garry Fitchett
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
— Elbert Hubbard
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
— Alexis Carrel
The rocks were really big around the mountains and at times some rocks seemed as if they had been sculpted by some unknown artist.
— Avijeet Das
Ardent
yet chill and formal,
how I ache
to tempt a chisel
as a sculptor. — Hilda Doolittle
yet chill and formal,
how I ache
to tempt a chisel
as a sculptor. — Hilda Doolittle
Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
— Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.
— Pope Pius IX
It was time to take what he wanted. And what he wanted was her.
— Lisa Carlisle
If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
You belong to them now. Vosch the sculptor, my body the clay, but not my spirit, never my soul. Unconquered. Uncrushed. Uncontained.
— Rick Yancey
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
— Henry David Thoreau
I'm an ice sculptor. Last night I made a cube.
— Mitch Hedberg
The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
— Michael Tippett
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.
— Cristobal Balenciaga
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
— Edvard Munch
A person is formed by experiences. The past is a blind sculptor. To deny that artist his masterwork is to mock your own experience.
— Jim Starlin
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
— John Ruskin
Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.
— Ben Whishaw
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
— William C. Bryant
And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
— Xander Berkeley
So this is love:
the Sculptor's chisel.
And stone, which in its whole life
does not utter a single word,
suddenly sings. — Milan Rufus
the Sculptor's chisel.
And stone, which in its whole life
does not utter a single word,
suddenly sings. — Milan Rufus
Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.
— Al Hirschfeld
I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'
— Richard Serra
I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
— Ewan McGregor
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
— Henry Moore
Nails. The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
— Henri Matisse
Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.
— Kevin Brownlow
Children are like clay in the hands of teachers. Like a sculptor we can chisel and carve their personalities with our behavior.
— Balroop Singh
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
— John Ruskin
I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
— Lawrence Barrett
To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.
— Cate Blanchett
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns.
— Heinrich Boll
Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.
— Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
A car designer is really a sculptor.
— Chris Bangle
My dad's great. He's an amazing artist. A sculptor. He's wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about ... everything.
— Grace Gummer
The shape of your life depends upon whether you choose to be the sculptor or the clay.
— Pamela M. Covington
Today stretches ahead of you waiting to be shaped. You are the sculptor who gets to do the shaping. What today will be like is up to you.
— Steve Maraboli
When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.
— Don DeLillo
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
— Michelangelo
As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.
— Toyohiko Kagawa
As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator.
— Debasish Mridha