Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Mitchell

I don't do sculpture in the traditional sense,

William Shatner

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

Rudolf Steiner

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

William C. Bryant

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Yayoi Kusama

The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'

Louise Bourgeois

For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.

Marsha Norman

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

Constantin Brancusi

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

Richard Avedon

i'm beginning to feel like this. caught the incredible sunshine just in the nick of time today on my walk. the wall of rain approaching from the west desert was pretty spectacular, too. along with being gorgeous, it was sooo muddy. which made driving home in no shoes so very fun :) if only i could post photos here! a picture is worth a thousand words, yes? If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.

Richard Avedon

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

Richard Avedon

I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure he doesn't remember it either. But this photograph is here now to prove that no amount of kindness on my part could make this photograph mean exactly what he.. or even I.. wanted it to mean. It's a reminder of the wonder and terror that is a photograph.

Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

Richard Avedon

There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates a character. She understood photography, and she also understood what makes a great photograph. She related to it as if she were giving a performance. She gave more to the still camera than any actress-any woman- I've ever photographed.

Richard Avedon

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Ryan McGinley

I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

Umberto Eco

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

Robert Capa

What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?

Sara Blakely

When something I can't control happens, I ask myself : where is the hidden gift, where is the positive in this?

Richard M. Nixon

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Willa Cather

I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.

Whoopi Goldberg

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.

Kelsey Grammer

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

Linda Tripp

I can live with myself.

Charles Spurgeon

I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it.

Cat Deeley

I can't dance at all by myself.

Bob Saget

Nobody can tell me what I can or can't do, except they can.