In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or sa

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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