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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 (Marble Quotes)
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself (Marble Quotes)
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 (Marble Quotes)
The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though only A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it (Marble Quotes)
Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands (Marble Quotes)
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues (Marble Quotes)
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead (Marble Quotes)
Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, o human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence! (Marble Quotes)
He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge plaster Christ had no longer a single drop of blood in its veins (Marble Quotes)
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 (Marble Quotes)
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 (Marble Quotes)
Ingratitude! Thou marble hearted fiend, more hideous when thou show'st thee in a child Than the sea monster (Marble Quotes)
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has (Marble Quotes)
I saw the angel in the marble and I just chiselled until I set him free (Marble Quotes)
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 (Marble Quotes)
Her sighs will make a batt'ry in his breast; her tears will pierce into a marble heart; the tiger will be mild whiles she doth mourn, and Nero will be tainted with remorse to hear and see her plaints, her brinish tears (Marble Quotes)
The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything (Marble Quotes)
A ghost in marble of a girl you knew who would have loved you in a day or two (Marble Quotes)
Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored (Marble Quotes)
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust (Marble Quotes)
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? (Marble Quotes)
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it’s time to move on (Marble Quotes)
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 (Marble Quotes)
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel (Marble Quotes)
Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are (Marble Quotes)
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions (Marble Quotes)
He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest (Marble Quotes)
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart’s impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble (Marble Quotes)
The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds (Marble Quotes)
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes (Marble Quotes)