<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Sculpture - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there:  Then looking up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54935]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,  The mingled beauties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54938]]></link><description><![CDATA[So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,  The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54929]]></link><description><![CDATA[In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made difference? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the feet, Hercules. [Lat., Ex pede Herculem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54930]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the feet, Hercules. [Lat., Ex pede Herculem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief,  And that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54931]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create  Phantoms that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create  Phantoms that seem to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the statue grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the cold marble leapt to life a God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54934]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the cold marble leapt to life a God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54924]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54926]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54927]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3233]]></link><description><![CDATA[I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3002]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3002</guid></item></channel></rss>