Ovid

“ The art to such an extent, lies hidden it's own art.
Pygmalion wonders at her and drinks in passionate fires of the replicate body.
Often he moved his hands trying the work, whether it
is a body or whether it is ivory, nor does he admit that it is ivory to this point.
He gives it kisses and he thinks kisses are returned. ”

“ In the meantime he sculpted white ivory happily
with wonderous art and wonderous skill, and gave it form with which
no woman is able to be born, and he fell in love with his own work.
It is the image of a true maiden whom you may believe is living
and, if reverence does not prevent it, you may believe she wants to move. ”

“ However, the obscene Propoetides dared to deny
that Venus was a goddess; for this denial, by the anger of the divine
they are said to be the first to have prostituted their bodies and pride,
as their shame waned and the blood of their face hardened
and they are changed into hard stone with slight difference. ”