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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Auguste Rodin The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. - Bayard Ruskin, True and Beautiful--Sculpture 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 true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself. - 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 light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness. - John Ruskin The beauty of a plastic work is, above all, plastic; and an art always degenerates when, discarding its own peculiar means for exciting interest, it borrows those of another art. - Henri Taine (Hyppolyte Adolpe Taine) So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. - James Thomson (1), Seasons--Summer (l. 1,346) He, like Amphion, makes those quarries leap into fair figures from a confused heap. - Edmund Waller The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. - William Wordsworth, The Prelude (bk. III) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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