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A sculptor wields
The chisel, and the stricken marble grows
To beauty.

A sculptor wields
The chisel, and the stricken marble grows
To beauty.

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From the feet, Hercules.
[Lat., Ex pede Herculem.]

From the feet, Hercules.
[Lat., Ex pede Herculem.]

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Sculpture Quotes,
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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.

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Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Sculpture Quotes,
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Sculpture Quotes,
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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.

by Bayard Ruskin Found in: Sculpture Quotes,
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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.

by Henri Matisse Found in: Sculpture Quotes,
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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.

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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.

by Jacques Lipchitz Found in: Sculpture Quotes,
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