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«Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.»
«All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.»
Author: Jacques Lipchitz
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Art,
Sculpture
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continually, denial, denial of, pushes, sculpture, sculptures
«Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.»
Author: Frank Zappa
(Composer, Guitarist, Satirist, Song Writer)
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Air In, performance, sculpted, sculpting, sculpture, sculptures, Something in the air, type
«Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.»
«Moonlight is sculpture.»
«It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
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hangs, hang around, modern art, sculpture, sculptures, walk around
«Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Mathematics
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austere, possesses, rightly, sculpture, viewed
«Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mathematics
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austere, cold, posse, posses, rightly, sculpture, sculptures, supreme, viewed
«I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
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Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, beauties, curves, goddesses, gods and goddesses, Greeks, lines, rhythmical, sculpture, sensitive, subtly, throbbing, throbs
«Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.»
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