The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.