The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
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.
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.
Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.