A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
Ada Louise Huxtable

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles Spurgeon

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
William C. Bryant

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
Karl Philipp Moritz

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
Jose Marti

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
Auguste Rodin

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Augustus

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.
Chaim Potok

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?
Joy Page

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Phillips Brooks

Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Marble is not alike in all countries.
Marcus V. Pollio

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Edmund Waller

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Michelangelo

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
Jean de la Bruyere

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