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15 Quotes for 'Sculpture' in the Database.
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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.
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Source: The Flood of Years
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Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Society and Solitude--Art
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From the feet, Hercules.
[Lat., Ex pede Herculem.]
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
Author: Michelangelo Buonarotti
Source: Sonnet, (Mrs. Henry Roscoe's translation)
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And the cold marble leapt to life a God.
Author: Rev. Henry Hart Milman
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.
Author: Plato
Source: in "Greek Anthology"
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.
Author: Bayard Ruskin
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.
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: Seasons--Summer (l. 1,346)
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The marble index of a mind forever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: The Prelude (bk. III)
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