The goddess, granted the wish, told her to kiss her with a lot of passion to satisfy her request and Pygmalion desperately kissed her and spoke, the sculpture comes alive after a dream of Pygmalion, by Aphrodite's work, seeing the love he felt for the statue, which represented the woman of his dreams. Galatea comes alive with a smile that pleased her creator, he asked her if she wanted to get married and be the queen of Cyprus, to which she accepted.

This myth had diverse representations in theater and cinema. One of the most popular plays based on the story, simply titled "Pygmalion," was written by the Irishman George Bernard Shaw in 1913, an author who would win the Nobel Prize for Literature years later.