Relief Sculpture Quotes & Sayings

Practice makes the Master. You can reconcile what you are and what you want to be. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It was dusk and the light had an ultra-violet quality to it, a final burst of pigmentation as night and day rushed at each other in a clash of colour prisms before darkness finnaly, inevitably won out. — Karen Swan

The interior would have resembled the backseat of a really big car if the seat belts hadn't had five-point fasteners that looked like they belonged in an X-wing fighter. — Maggie Stiefvater

WHAT THE HELL WAS I DOING?! Oh, right.$1500."
From "Clown Porn" in "Broken Headbone — Ginny McMath

He believes himself to be an agent of change; he is the living embodiment of the simple, implacably optimistic notion Never again. — Glen Weldon

That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture! — Galileo Galilei

I was drowning, and I could not recall the last time it had happened so completely. "Voglio fare l'amore con te," he whispered into my hair. "I don't - " "I wanna make love to you. — Mary Calmes

I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like. — David Hewson

Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter has filed papers to run for president. But in his official filing, he misspelled the word 'president.' Political experts say it's all part of Hunter's plan to attract Bush supporters. — Conan O'Brien

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract. — Urs Fischer

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds. — Malvina Hoffman

With the smoke of the dead sailor's cigar wreathing around him, Willie passed to thinking about death and life and luck and God. Philosophers are at home with such thoughts, perhaps, but for other people it is actual torture when these concepts--not the words, the realities--break through the crust of daily occurrences and grip the soul. A half hour of such racking meditation can change the ways of a lifetime. — Herman Wouk

We are constantly invited to be what we are. — Henry David Thoreau

I don't use you as a shield. I am the goddamn shield. — Kristen Ashley