Then marble soften'd into life grew warm.
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
What appears in the former statue of Apollo, however, cannot simply be equated with the Olympian of the same name, who had to ensure light, contours, foreknowledge and security of form in his days of...
We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the genre of the autonomous torso. The poet's view of the mutilated body thus h...
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.
Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two great classes: t...