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In the first place, sculpture is dependent on certain lights, namely those from above, while a picture carries everywhere with it ...
When I have seen fine statues, and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, "When I have been ...
I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recor ...
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculpture ...
The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defi ...
The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that whic ...
To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see ...
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a N ...
A picture wants solidity, a statue wants colour. But we see the want of colour as a palpably glaring defect, and we do not see the ...
I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhyth ...
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