Quotes about sculptures

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

— Helen Keller

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

— Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

— Pablo Picasso

The jargon of these 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