Marble Quotes

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

Him, Free, Until

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

Write, Injuries, Dust

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

Good, Best, Character

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

Write, Injuries, Dust

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

Beautiful, Away, Process

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

Beauty, Nature, God

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

Cannot, Suffering, Both

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo

Greatest, Thought, Artist

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison

Education, Soul, Sculpture

Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life, Made, Mud

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

Best, Alone, Thought

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

Mind, Greatest, Single

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

Best, Alone, Within

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

Hard, Court, Palace

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

Off, Whatever, Choose

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Two, Away, Keep

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
Nancy Pelosi

Time, Important, Woman

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, Work, Before

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
Theophile Gautier

Work, Beautiful, Process

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

God, Beautiful, Human

You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
Camille Claudel

Work, Find, Excuse

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.
Candace Bushnell

Love, Person, Lived

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

Writing, Mean, Find

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

Year, Left, Rise

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

Countries, Alike

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

Beauty, Grows, Sculptor

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

Great, Along, Side

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

Seek, Poets, Greek

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
Martin H. Fischer

Education, Great, Poverty

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

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