If we can discover his ideal, his principles, his leading instincts in this decisive matter, we shall unlock, so far as that is possible, the secret of his personality as man and artist.

The psychological quality of every great master must eventually be determined by his mode of dealing with the phenomena of sex.
In Pheidias we find a large impartiality.

His men and women are cast in the same mould of grandeur, inspired with equal strength and sweetness, antiphonal notes in dual harmony.

Praxiteles leans to the female, Lysippus to the male; and so, through all the gamut of the figurative craftsmen, we discover more or less affinity for man or woman.

One is swayed by woman and her gracefulness, the other by man and his vigour.