Clay Modeling Quotes

I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

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

I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawing.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

The other day someone left a piece of plasticine in my dressing room. I didn't know what to make of it.

I like to work in films, but I'd love to work in the technical side of film. I'd love to work with, say, Greg Nicotero [The Walking Dead] in kind of, like, special makeup effects. I'd probably say, "Good with clay and latex." Although I don't know what kind of job that'd get me.

I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected.

I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

CG can do anything, but it can't do everything well. What it naturally can do is special effects. But using stop-motion comes from our desire to do handmade stuff. There are always going to be kids who get out whatever it might be - clay, bits of wire, Barbie dolls, Legos. They want to tell little stories.

I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay.

These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.

When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel.

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.

The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.

I used to subscribe to Nintendo Power. The first issue had 'Mario 2,' and it had all the characters rendered in clay. So I started making all of these characters out of clay.

I'd love to create my own stuff. I've always written stuff, but it would be nice to have my hand a little deeper in the clay, so to speak.

When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.

It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.