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Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker. -- Charles de Lint
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment. -- John Dryden
What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. -- Marcel Marceau
I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. -- Minoru Yamasaki
Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood. -- Jessica Alba
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. -- Rudolf Arnheim
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. -- Brian Greene
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing. -- Twyla Tharp
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. -- Gavin Newsom
I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors. -- Donald Sinden
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie. -- Carl Sandburg
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner. -- Ezra Pound
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. -- Michael Heizer
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing. -- Dorothy Fields
I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors. -- Jandy Nelson
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. -- Henry David Thoreau
Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. -- Khaled Hosseini
I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually helping me achieve my vision of the film. I had a dream cast headed by Chris Evans. I had the best designers, artists, sculptors, craftspeople. -- Joe Johnston
Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads. -- David Altmejd
Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing. -- Vincent Price
This theme of bigness "? all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. -- Michael Heizer
Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before. -- Richard Serra
We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice. -- Sheena Iyengar
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone. -- Henry David Thoreau
It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around. -- Giorgio de Chirico
A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains. -- Hippolyte Taine
In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece. -- Eddie Murphy
Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don't actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn't the object? -- Rainbow Rowell
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece. -- Eddie Murphy
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg. -- Sara Genn
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues. -- Aesop
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean. -- Barbara Kruger
"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them. -- Larry Clark
If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade. -- M. C. Escher

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