Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Architecture is inhabited 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.
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.