O thou sculptor, painter, poet,
Take this lesson to thy heart;
That is best which lieth nearest;
Shape from that thy work of art. [ Longfellow ]
The chisel is the pen of the sculptor. [ Pius IX ]
The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame.
Die fast away; only themselves die faster.
The far-famed sculptor, and the laurelled bard,
Those bold insurancers of deathless fame,
Supply their little feeble aids in vain. [ Blair ]
A sculptor wields the chisel, and the stricken marble grows to beauty. [ Bryant ]
Thy shape in every part so clean as might instruct the sculptor's art. [ Dryden ]
Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone. Can nature show as fair? [ Byron ]
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. [ Ruskin ]
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a painter or sculptor, he can only be a builder. [ Ruskin ]
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions. [ Burke ]
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, - the wise, the good, or the great man, - very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light. [ Joseph Addison ]