I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.

- Conor Oberst

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

- Ezra Pound

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

- Ellsworth Kelly

Some psychiatrist told me I was interested in sculpture because I dealt in flat surfaces and needed something with dimension.

- David L. Wolper

The skull is nature's sculpture.

- David Bailey

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

- Damien Hirst

Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.

- Charles Pollock

I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.

- Cathy Marie Buchanan

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

- Clifton Fadiman

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

- Constantin Brancusi

That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.

- Andy Serkis

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

- Chuck Close

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

- Betty Parsons

The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

- Bayard Taylor

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

- Anthony Caro

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

- Anthony Caro

Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

- Ad Reinhardt

How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?

- Antony Gormley

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

- Anish Kapoor

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

- Auguste Rodin