The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.
The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but a marble statue is cold and speaks to but a few of the most evolved who are able to infuse the statue with their own life.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.