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All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found read more
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.
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 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 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.
In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or
say of the Laocoon how it might read more
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.
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.
And the cold marble leapt to life a God.
And the cold marble leapt to life a God.
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.]