“ Then that which living gave you roome, your glorious sepulcher shall be. There wants no marble for a tombe, whose brest hath marble beene to me. ”
- William Habington- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image. ”
- Michelangelo- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion. ”
- Alfred A. Montapert- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed — it is a process of elimination. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
- 1.3K
“ What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 2K
“ The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
- 939
“ The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried. ”
- Ada Louise Huxtable- Copy
- 948
“ The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing. ”
- Neil Kinnock- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows. ”
- Michelangelo Buonarroti- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1K
“ A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ”
- Michelangelo Buonarroti- Copy
- 565
“ I choose a block of marble and chop off everything I don't need. ”
- Auguste Rodin- Copy
- 3.4K
“ A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble. ”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. ”
- Michelangelo Buonarroti- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ”
- Alexis Carrel- Copy
- 404
“ Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. ”
- James Irwin- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed upon him by his vision… ”
- John Jay Chapman- Copy
- 664
“ We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears! ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 1K
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