But I don't hesitate to proclaim it--I mean to lift them again! I mean to go in for big things; that 's my notion of my art.

I mean to do things that will be simple and vast and infinite.

You 'll see if they won't be infinite! Excuse me if I brag a little; all those Italian fellows in the Renaissance used to brag.

There was a sensation once common, I am sure, in the human breast--a kind of religious awe in the presence of a marble image newly created and expressing the human type in superhuman purity.
When Phidias and Praxiteles had their statues of goddesses unveiled in the temples of the AEgean, don't you suppose there was a passionate beating of hearts, a thrill of mysterious terror?
I mean to bring it back; I mean to thrill the world again! I mean to produce a Juno that will make you tremble, a Venus that will make you swoon!" "So that when we come and see you," said Madame Grandoni, "we must be sure and bring our smelling-bottles.

And pray have a few soft sofas conveniently placed." "Phidias and Praxiteles," Miss Blanchard remarked, "had the advantage of believing in their goddesses.