The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
The arts don't exist in isolation.
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
Art will never be able to exist without nature.
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.
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.