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Once I stood in Miss Hosmer's studio, looking at a statue which she was modelling of the ex-queen of Naples. Face to face with the clay model, I always feel the artist's creative power far more than when I am looking at the immovable marble.
A touch here -- there -- and all is changed. Perhaps, under my eyes, in the twinkling of an eye, one trait springs into life and another disappears.