Quotations on Sculpture | Quotations: 7 | Pages: 1
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by Alexander Pope
(May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744) |
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. |
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) |
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 cha ... |
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) |
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. |
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by William Wordsworth
(April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850) |
The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. |
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by Plato
(427 BC - 347 BC) |
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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by Alexander Pope
(May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744) |
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. |
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