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I look on sculpture as history. i do not think the apollo and the jove impossible in flesh and blood. every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I Look On Sculpture As History. I

Ralph Waldo Emerson
I look on sculpture as history. i do not think the apollo and the jove impossible in flesh and blood. every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.
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