Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Mitchell

I don't do sculpture in the traditional sense,

Rudolf Steiner

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

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.'

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.

Andy Goldsworthy

The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.

Martin Puryear

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

John Ruskin

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

Melanie Griffith

There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.

Henri Matisse

I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Russell Brand

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

William Wycherley

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

Vladimir Lenin

He who does not work shall not eat

Roland Barthes

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

Saint Francis de Sales

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

Zane Grey

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

Zach Braff

If a benevolent God exists, so does reincarnation. He wouldn't send me here just once.

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Ali Khan

What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

John Prescott

have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

William Kingdon Clifford

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

Sam Altman

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.

William Hazlitt

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.