Rayyan

“Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two great classes: those arts, like sculpture, painting, acting, which are representative, or as used to be said very clumsily, imitative; and those, like architecture, music, and the dance, which are self-sufficient, and merely presentative.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.”
― Thomas de Quincey

“Never trust the enemy that gives you presents”
― Alexander Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“Stones dream of shapes they might become. The sculptor has but to listen.”
― Thurin-Jon (as quoted)