Sculpture

And the cold marble leapt to life a God.

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork. Traditionally, such artwork was created by shaping or combining hard materials - typically stone such as marble - or metal, glass, or wood. Softer ("plastic") materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals. Modernly, the term has been extended to works including sound, text and light.

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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 694.

• The stone unhewn and cold
  Becomes a living mould,
  The more the marble wastes
  The more the statue grows.
  • Michelangelo, Sonnet, Mrs. Henry Roscoe's translation.

• Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.
  • A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.
  • Quoted by Appuleius as a saying of Pythagoras.

• A sculptor wields
  The chisel, and the stricken marble grows
  To beauty.
  • William Cullen Bryant, The Flood of Years.

• Not from a vain or shallow thought
  His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Problem.

• In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoön how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, Art.

• Ex pede Herculem.
  • From the feet, Hercules.
  • Herodotus, Book IV, Section LXXXII. Plutarch. As quoted by Aulus Gellius. I. 1. Diogenes. V. 15.

• 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.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, Part III. 5.

• Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater
  To raise the dead to life than to create
  Phantoms that seem to live.
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, Part III. 5.

• And the cold marble leapt to life a God.
  • H. H. Milman, The Belvedere Apollo.

• The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair
  Across the tide to see her image there:
  Then looking up and round the prospect wide,
  When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.
  • Plato, in Greek Anthology.

• Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
  • Alexander Pope, Second Book of Horace, Epistle I, line 146.

• The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
  • John Ruskin, True and Beautiful, Sculpture.

• So stands the statue that enchants the world,
  So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
  The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.
  • James Thomson, The Seasons, Summer (1727), line 1,346.

• The marble index of a mind forever
  Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
  • William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book III.