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Home Art Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber’s wax dummy is to sculpture.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber’s wax dummy is to sculpture.

Polly, August 17, 2013

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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

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I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me.

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