Quotes From The Artist

“I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking.“ Jean Cocteau

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.” John Keats

“Love is my religion – I could die for that.” John Keats

“Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.” Bob Dylan

“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.” Walt Whitman

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Jorge Luis Borges

“I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can I endure the earth?

Louise Glück

“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.” Albert Camus

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” William Shakespeare

“A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.” Frank Stella

“All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.” Jacques Lipchitz

“I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.” Clifton Fadiman

“I’m quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything have one primary concern – mankind.” Chico Hamilton

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.” Pablo Picasso

“Sculpture is more divine, and more like nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, That is sculpture. This vast ball, the earth, Was molded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe are statues, and not paintings. ” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“To be an artist is to believe in life.” Henry Moore

“I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” Vincent van Gogh