Sculpture Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Sculpture.
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“Ex pede Herculem.”
“And the cold marble leapt to life a God.”
“Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.”
“Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.”
“You are fifty years old and would worship a day old statue!”
“Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.”
“A sculptor wields
The chisel, and the stricken marble grows
To beauty.”
“The marble index of a mind forever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.”
“Wikipedia: Sculpture”
“The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.”
“Wikicommons: Sculpture”
“The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more the statue grows.”
“Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater
To raise the dead to life than to create
Phantoms that seem to live.”
“So stands the statue that enchants the world,
So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.”
“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.”
“In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoön how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.”
“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.”
“After a long time the great and awful Name was forgotten and the people, men, women and children, only recognized an image of wood or stone and the temple of wood or stone which they had been brought up from infancy to serve by bowing down. ... Abraham ... knew that all were mistaken and that what caused them to err was worship of the images which drove the Truth out of their minds.”
“Tacitus says, that the Jews held God to be something eternal and supreme, neither subject to change nor to decay; therefore, they permit no statues in their cities or their temples. The universal Being can only be described or defined by negatives which deny his subjection to the laws of all inferior existences. Where indefiniteness ends, idolatry and anthropomorphism begin.”