SCULPTURE

Related Subjects: Art, Painting

1. I've seen much finer women, ripe and real,
   Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

2. A sculptor wields
   The chisel, and the stricken marble grows
   To beauty.—BRYANT, The Flood of Years
   

3. The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible.—EMERSON, Essays
   

4. The more the marble wastes,
   The more the statue grows.—MICHELANGELO
   

5. Where the statue stood
   Of Newton with his prism and silent face,
   The marble index of a mind forever
   Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.—WORDSWORTH, The Prelude