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 The marble index of a mind forever
 Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.  
 The marble index of a mind forever
 Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. 
 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. 
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
 A sculptor wields
 The chisel, and the stricken marble grows
  To beauty.  
 A sculptor wields
 The chisel, and the stricken marble grows
  To beauty. 
 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. 
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.
 Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature,
 That fashions all her works in high relief,
  And read more 
 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. 
 From the feet, Hercules.
 [Lat., Ex pede Herculem.]  
 From the feet, Hercules.
 [Lat., Ex pede Herculem.] 
 Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater
 To raise the dead to life than to create
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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.