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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
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.
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, read more
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
So stands the statue that enchants the world,
So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
The read more
So stands the statue that enchants the world,
So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.
A sculptor wields
The chisel, and the stricken marble grows
To beauty.
A sculptor wields
The chisel, and the stricken marble grows
To beauty.
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.]