Quotes of Sculptor - somelinesforyou

“ No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage. ”

- Unknown

“ In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. ”

- Henry Moore

“ A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. ”

- Henry Moore

“ Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing. ”

- B. C. Forbes

“ An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. ”

- Lawrence Barrett

“ 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

“ The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner. ”

- Ezra

“ Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ”

- Alexis Carrel

“ Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ Your vision of yourself and your possibilities is a mental picture of what you will become. We must carve our own success in the same way that a sculptor chips away at a block of marble. Like the sculptor who creates a masterpiece from a mental model, we must begin our journey to success by visualizing what we want to become… ”

- Unknown

“ I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The plague had by this time almost died out, so that the survivors, when they met together alive, rejoiced with much delight in one another's company. This led to the formation of a club of painters, sculptors and goldsmiths, the best that were in Rome. ”

- Benevenuto Cellini
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