sculpture

umbrella

lamppost

's finest stone-worker is not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. Henry David Thoreau

sense

sensuality

is the stuff you trip over when you are backing up trying to look at a painting.

Sculpture is the stuff you trip over when you are backing up trying to look at a painting.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

hole

lumpiness

For Alberto Giacometti, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

editing

space

is seeing the angel in the marble and carving until it has been set free.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

is a great sculpture if you can roll it down a hill without breaking.

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

is an art that owes its value to its difficulty: a fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man.

A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.

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