Quotes about Marble

character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

I perceive that marble conceals a multitude of sins.

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

I am the dust and the ashes of the temple of the Holy Ghost, and what marble is so precious? But I am more than dust and ashes: I am my best part, I am my soul.

Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self.

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

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

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.

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.