Annie Wersching Quotes

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

I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. I would go out at six in the morning and just take pictures.

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.

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.

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.

I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay.

You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.

What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.

I'm definitely feeling whatever's going on pretty hard. It's like playing Barbies. You're holding the Barbies, but all of the action is happening inside of your head. You might be holding them or even speaking out loud, but really, all of the animation is internal. That's sort of how I feel about my writing. And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, "Hmm, there's half a page that's good here." Then you throw out everything else.

My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the thinking hand, must be relaxed, sensitive. The rhythms of thought pass through the fingers and grip of this hand into the stone.

Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, but I must say I cannot sympathise with these cries from the heart that are informed by nothing except a needle or a knife, or whatever it is.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried to make stuff up it just kind of falls flat. So the majority of my work is something that happened to me, I saw happen to someone else, or a friend of mine told me happened. There is a certain amount of theatrical and poetic license. People are supposed to like it, that's why you're doing it. It's supposed to be fun. It's not brain surgery, it's heart surgery. They're just songs.