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From the feet, Hercules.
[Lat., Ex pede Herculem.]
From the feet, Hercules.
[Lat., Ex pede Herculem.]
The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair
Across the tide to see her image there:
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The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair
Across the tide to see her image there:
Then looking up and round the prospect wide,
When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature,
That fashions all her works in high relief,
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Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature,
That fashions all her works in high relief,
And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth,
Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire;
Men, women, and all animals that breathe
Are statues, and not paintings.
I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.
I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.
And the cold marble leapt to life a God.
And the cold marble leapt to life a God.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common
observer of life and nature.
The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common
observer of life and nature.
Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater
To raise the dead to life than to create
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Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater
To raise the dead to life than to create
Phantoms that seem to live.
The marble index of a mind forever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
The marble index of a mind forever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.