Sculptor Quotations

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but a marble statue is cold and speaks to but a few of the most evolved who are able to infuse the statue with their own life.

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns.

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.

Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.

In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.

They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.

I came to New York, straight out of college, wanting one thing in life: to work on Jim Henson's film The Dark Crystal.

I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.

But basically I try to investigate the site in terms of its potential for interfacing some material so that if I close my eyes I can walk the land.

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

The teams who play against us don't give us any gifts, but we were too kind.

The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art.

The writer dreams of being the sculptor of words and the painter of ideas.

Of every noble work the silent part is best, Of all expression that which can not be expressed.

With Andy Cole up front they can score at any time. We'll be watching him very closely.

I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager.

They can be cranky, bewildered, giddy, frustrated and sometimes moved to violence. In short, they are afflicted with the New York City Getaway Fever.

If you're an amateur artist, you can get it sometimes and not other times and you can't tell and you can't always do it over again.

I gave a certain amount of thought to how I set up the shot and then after that. That's not an uncommon way for artists to proceed.

Charlton are a team who play well on the ball, but they found it hard to break us down, they didn't really have an out and out chance in front of our goal.

It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club.

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.Like Tyler says, even a souffle' looks pumped.

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

The idea being there so that it became almost like an object that was there, that you could go back and visit whenever you wanted to.

The design is a public amenity, designed by a sculptor, which tries to invest a public facility with a bit more poetry than it otherwise might have.