Anthony Caro famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Thinking #Everyday #Doe
Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.
-- Anthony Caro

#Morning #Mean #Important
So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.
-- Anthony Caro

#Sculpture
I would like to continue being radical. As you get older, some of the world catches up and it's passed you. In the '60s you were on the crest of a wave because you were part of the wave. I don't want be a stick in the mud and do the same thing as I did last year, I want to do something different and see what happens.
-- Anthony Caro

#Years #Sticks #Different
Let the work speak for itself.
-- Anthony Caro

#Communication #Speak
Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang! you're there: it's so direct. I think Manet was very direct, he didn't prepare his canvases like Courbet, he just put paint straight on and it's very like that with steel.
-- Anthony Caro

#Nice #Moving #Cutting
Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.
-- Anthony Caro

#Space #Important #Sculpture
Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from it and transformed it, and that had led on to the next one and the next.
-- Anthony Caro

#Art #Taken #Next

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.
She who means no mischief does it all.

Anthony Caro famous quotes

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