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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.

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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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So stands the statue that enchants the world,
So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
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So stands the statue that enchants the world,
So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.

by James Thomson (1) Found in: Sculpture Quotes,
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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.

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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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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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

by Michelangelo Found in: Sculpture Quotes,
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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.

by William Wordsworth Found in: Sculpture Quotes,
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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.

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And the cold marble leapt to life a God.

And the cold marble leapt to life a God.

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