Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• 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.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

• Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sculpture, Phantoms, Painting

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.146, Wildside Press LLC

• The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sculpture, Painting, Best Picture

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.93, Wildside Press LLC

• Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fashion, Animal, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1578, Delphi Classics

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