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

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

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

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

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

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
Louise Bogan