“There are laws which the stone imposes upon us.”
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 46.
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Fritz Wotruba: Citations en anglais
“Solidity, rigidity, what did not yield to the pressure of the hand attracted me.”
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 88.
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 40.
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 7.
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 8.
“Culture can flourish only under the protection of a society with aristocratic characteristics.”
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 12.
“At the present time the artists stands alone.... no ideology can be of help to him.”
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 7.
“Only a distinctive individual can produce great art. Great art is synonymous with anonymous art.”
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 73.
“I am concerned with the figure... Equilibrium, unity.”
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 6.
circa 1969
Quote of Wotruba in: 'Sculpture of Rotterdam', ed. Jan van Adrichem / Jelle Bouwhuis / Mariëtte Dulle, Center for the Art, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2002, p. 198.
“Every magnitude, every dimension, requires a new configuration.”
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 10.
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 21.
“Measures, weights, proportions move and change in expression and meaning.”
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 56.
Quote from 'Private Notebooks of Fritz Wotruba'; transl. Peter Foges & Haakon Chevalier – Neuchatel, Editions du Griffion, 1961.
“The power and force of stone reside in its mass, its weight, and its density.”
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 19.
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 9.
Source: 'Sculpture of Rotterdam', ed. Jan van Adrichem / Jelle Bouwhuis / Mariëtte Dulle, Center for the Art, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2002, p. 198.
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 22.
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 29.
“A good piece of art must combine barbarism and culture: two unique elements…”
Source: The Human Form: Sculpture, Prints, and Drawings, 1977, p. 52.
