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#carving

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Why, observe the thing; turn it over; hold it up to the window; count the beads, long, oval, like some seaweed bulbs, each an amulet. See the tint; it's very old; like clots of sunshine, aren't they? Now bring it near; see the carving, here corrugated, there faceted, now sculptured into hideous, tiny, heathen gods. You didn't notice that before! How difficult it must have been, when amber is so friable! Here's one with a chessboard on his back, and all his kings and queens and pawns slung round him. Here's another with a torch, a flaming torch, its fire pouring out inverted. They are grotesque enough; but this, this is matchless: such a miniature woman, one hand grasping the round rock behind, while she looks down into some gulf, perhaps, beneath, and will let herself fall. 0, you should see her with a magnifying-glass! You want to think of calm satisfying death, a mere exhalation, a voluntary slipping into another element? There it is for you. They are all gods and goddesses. They are all here but one; I've lost one, the knot of all, the love of the thing. Well! Wasn't it queer for a Catholic girl to have at prayer?


Harriet Prescott Spofford


#catholic #gods #jewelry #death

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.


Martin Puryear


#casting #i #methods #necessary #realized

I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone - all-star cast and it was a fun set to be on. I've gotten really lucky to get all these down-to-earth cast members. 'Butter''s about butter carving in Iowa.


Ashley Greene


#all-star #butter #carving #cast #cast members

Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?


Ron Fournier


#barack #before #begins #carving #face

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.


Adam Lambert


#i #identity #important #out #trying

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.


Henri Matisse


#color #cutting #direct #into #me

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.


Alanis Morissette


#body #both #carving #directions #eye

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.


Martin Luther King, Jr.


#carving #loudly #out #past #peaceful

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.


Martin Luther King, Jr.


#out #peaceful #poor #tomorrows #wars

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.


Charles Buxton


#criticism #cut #good #holds #knife






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