American 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.