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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Saint Teresa, 1642

“One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The first time I saw his sculpture of Saint Teresa [in Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome] was in 1960. You can only see it during Mass and in order to see the little chapel it’s in, you have to get to the front pew and lean forward. I don’t know how to do the crossing myself very well. The young priest was howling with laughter when he saw me in the front row, trying to kneel when everyone else kneels, but doing it wrong." Frank Gehry

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 1621

“It would have been better for sculpture had Bernini never lived.” (Johann Georg Heck)

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pluto and Proserpina, 1621

For Bernini and the Baroque, mysticism was not just an inward and hidden experience, but one that involved a direct intuition of the divine, one so clear and palpable that it could be described with vivid language and concrete, visual forms.” (Vernon Hyde Minor)

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Saint Teresa, 1642

"Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice" (Gian Lorenzo Bernini)

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Hermaphroditus, 1620

"An architect proves his skill by turning the defects of a site into advantages." (Gian lorenzo Bernini)

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 1621

"Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice" (Gian Lorenzo Bernini)

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pluto and Proserpina, 1621

"There are two devices which can help the sculptor to judge his work: one is not to see it for a while. The other... is to look at his work through spectacles which will change its color and magnify or diminish it, so as to disguise it somehow to his eye, and make it look as though it were the work of another..." (Gian Lorenzo Bernini)