| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. |
| Alexander Pope | I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. |
| Bayard Ruskin | The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. |
| Alexander Pope | Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. |
| Alexander Pope | I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. |
| James Thomson | So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. |
| Michelangelo Buonarott | The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows. |
| Plato | 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. |
| Rev Henry Hart Milman | And the cold marble leapt to life a God. |
| William Cullen Bryant | A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 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 | From the feet, Hercules. |
| William Wordsworth | The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. |
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