fatigueless

Updated: July 5, 2025

Moulding the supple earth with 'hand obedient to the brain, the plasticatore has impressed his most fugitive dreams of beauty on it without effort; and what it cost him but a few fatigueless hours to fashion, the steady heat of the furnace has gifted with imperishable life. Such work, no doubt, has the defects of its qualities.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series