Quotes about Sculpture
Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.
— Vincent van Gogh
and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.
— 1 Kings 6:26
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
— Joseph Addison
So the total wingspan of these cherubim was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main room.
— 2 Chronicles 3:13
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
— Oscar Wilde
Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.
— John Maxwell
A thick and shapeless trunk would never believe that it could become a statue, admired as a miracle of sculpture, and would never consent to submit itself to the chisel of the sculptor who sees by his genius what he can make of it.
— Ignatius of Loyola
She asked for clay and started to make models and sculptures. She
— Peter Scazzero
In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold.
— 2 Chronicles 3:10
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
— Michelangelo
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
— Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
— Joseph Addison