Quotes about Marble
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
— Joseph Addison
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.
— Peter Kreeft
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
The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.
— Michelangelo
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
— Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
— Joseph Addison
His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.
— Song of Solomon 5:15
Better could the stem of a rose support a marble bust than the mind of man bear the false infinity of his own deification.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
— Joseph Addison
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 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
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