I'm delighted. It's a fantastic and beautiful masterpiece of early Renaissance sculpture by the presiding genius of the 15th century.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.

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