Sculpture Creation Quotes

The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

My wife's hands are very beautiful. I'm going to have a bust made of them.

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

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.

I do everything. Of course, I have 50 people who work for me to do the drudgery of mold making and all the foundry. This is an enormous task. But every stroke in these sculptures is from my hands.