Sculptors Quotes
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Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
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A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.
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Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.
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I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
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Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.
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Now, in order to claim some knowledge of painting, Vitruvius speaks of the consideration of the perfect human body and about how good sculptors and painters in order to make it give it a height of ten faces, and I say that according to them they have read and they say that this proportion is based on knowledge of measurement and that it happens that without it it is not possible to have proportion or consideration because those who are not cognizant of this do not count.
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The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
