sculptor

"Why would a sculptor waste their free time hammering rocks?

"Dude, you're so lucky to be a master sculptor.

Reminds me of this quote by the sculptor Rodin: "I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

No. You get to be Leonardo Da Vinci though, who was a painter, a sculptor, an inventor, a thinker and a ladies man.

One I saw a while ago was that a web designer who doesn't code is like a sculptor who doesn't know anatomy.

Or the sculptor of the Laocoon group?The 'breaking rules' stuff is all very well for some things but it is not the definition of art.

Any sculptor who did would have a clear advantage over their peers -- but I am skeptical that it would make them a better sculptor.

It has everything you need and you can just remove the stuff you don't, just like the way a sculptor chisels away the unneeded parts.

""Actually being a sculptor is making me pretty miserable.

Get inspired by a particular poet, film-maker, sculptor, composer.

A trick learned from a friend who is a brick sculptor, who learned it from a guy at a brickyard, after complaining about standing at the brick easel all day.

I think that his interest in dissection was not driven by any desire to know anatomy per-se, but mostly by a desire to be a better sculptor.

There are some surprising rewards to learning how to do this, in that much like a sculptor or a painter one realizes that the medium is actually rather influential, and how pleasant it is to "go with the grain" for any given project.

Consider the next sculptor, who builds a doll with a recording in its belly, that it may groan beneath his blows; consider a doll which, when beaten, begs for mercy, no longer a crude idol, but a homeostat; consider a doll that sheds tears, a doll that bleeds, a doll that fears death, though it also longs for the peace that only death can bring!