"A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking."
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"It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand."
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"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 me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind."
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"Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality."
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"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."
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"Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form."
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"Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature."
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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."
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"The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature."
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"That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!"
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"There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter."
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"Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain"
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"Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves."
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"I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing."
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"The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts."
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"And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own."
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"The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture."
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"What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space."
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"But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction."
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"The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material."
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