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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 best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break read more
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
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.
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.
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.
The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
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The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more the statue grows.
The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair
Across the tide to see her image there:
Then looking read more
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.
A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.
[Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.]
A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.
[Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.]