Pastoral Resources

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

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.