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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 the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone”
Michelangelo Quotes |
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“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”
Dan Rice Quotes |
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“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.”
Jacques Lipchitz Quotes |
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“I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.”
Henri Matisse Quotes |
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“A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.
[Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.]”
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“A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.
[Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.]”
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“A sculptor wields
The chisel, and the stricken marble grows
To beauty.”
William Cullen Bryant Quotes Source: The Flood of Years
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“Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: The Problem
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“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.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Society and Solitude--Art
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“From the feet, Hercules.
[Lat., Ex pede Herculem.]”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Society and Solitude--Art
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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.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Michael Angelo (pt. III, 5)
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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.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Michael Angelo (pt. III, 5)
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“The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more the statue grows.”
Michelangelo Buonarotti Quotes Source: Sonnet, (Mrs. Henry Roscoe's translation)
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“And the cold marble leapt to life a God.”
Rev. Henry Hart Milman Quotes Source: The Belvedere Apollo
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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.”
Plato Quotes Source: in "Greek Anthology"
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“Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 146)
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“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 146)
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“The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common
observer of life and nature.”
Bayard Ruskin Quotes Source: True and Beautiful--Sculpture
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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.”
James Thomson (1) Quotes Source: Seasons--Summer (l. 1,346)
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“The marble index of a mind forever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: The Prelude (bk. III)
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