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 A sculptor wields
 The chisel, and the stricken marble grows
  To beauty.  
 A sculptor wields
 The chisel, and the stricken marble grows
  To beauty. 
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found read more
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
 In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or 
say of the Laocoon how it might read more 
 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. 
 From the feet, Hercules.
 [Lat., Ex pede Herculem.]  
 From the feet, Hercules.
 [Lat., Ex pede Herculem.] 
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, read more
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
 A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.
 [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.]  
 A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.
 [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.] 
And the cold marble leapt to life a God.
And the cold marble leapt to life a God.
 So stands the statue that enchants the world,
 So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
  The read more 
 So stands the statue that enchants the world,
 So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
  The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.