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The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. — Joseph Addison
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… — Plato
The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. — 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. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of… — Samuel Johnson
Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for… — Michelangelo
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who… — Pablo Picasso
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock… — John Dryden
Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever… — Stephanie Mills
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. — Alexander Pope
Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. — Alexander Pope
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality. — Louisa May Alcott
He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for… — Henry Moore
Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than… — Henry Moore
In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you… — Henry Moore
Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in. — Henry Moore
Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape. — James Howell
Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the… — John Ruskin
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. — John Ruskin
The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of… — John Ruskin
As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays… — Auguste Rodin
If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy... — Auguste Rodin

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