Urs Fischer Quotes

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

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

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.

I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.

In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.

I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.

Many of my sculptures take a long time to make.

Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.

I like making art.

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.

Working from live models is too much trouble; it takes too much time.

The first time I made a mold of my vampire teeth, I took pictures of that.

Bubble cubes are central to what I do.

You might say that my work is just simply lying on the ground, and I go and I gather it, and I pick it up, and I put it together.

I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in sculpture... I'd missed all the technical stuff. I didn't really know how to weld or forge or carve or model. I'd sort of evaded all those technique classes, so I had no technique.

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

When I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and the sculptor just has to discover it, I also believe you have an image in your head that you're trying to get to. So you're in a dialogue with the piece, a back-and-forth.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.