A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
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.
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.
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.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.