Definition of Sculptor

Sculptor

One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture.

Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast.

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Sculptor Quotations

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangelo

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
Henri Matisse

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
John Ruskin

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
Edvard Munch

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Alexis Carrel

And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly.
Mary Tyler Moore

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
Wyndham Lewis

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.
Kathleen Quinlan

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
Arne Jacobsen

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
Minoru Yamasaki

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
Anish Kapoor

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
Michael Tippett

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.
Gavin Bryars

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
William C. Bryant

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry Moore

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
Xander Berkeley

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.
Leonard Slatkin

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
Lawrence Barrett

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Sculptor Translations

sculptor in French is sculpteur
sculptor in German is Bildhauer
sculptor in Italian is scultore
sculptor in Spanish is escultor

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