Quotes About Marble Sculpture

#1. If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams.

Dan Dierdorf

#2. What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Edward Abbey

#3. The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

Mary Stewart

#4. 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.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#5. He was like warm marble wherever she touched him, solid and unyielding, Michelangelo's namesake sculpture come to life.

Tina Wright

#6. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.

Aldous Huxley

#7. I've never been one to have to manipulate women. I always want it to be like a mutual thing, like everybody loves everybody.

LL Cool J

#8. You are not a sensitive and will never experience this, but raw data surges, blunt data with errors which are slowly refined like the process of chiselling out a sculpture from a block of marble.

Tade Thompson

#9. I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky - Seen, nothing in it to see.

Fernando Pessoa

#10. The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

Freya Stark

#12. If you want it, become it.

Mastin Kipp

#13. I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Nelson Mandela

#14. Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.

Rob Kall

#15. I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

Barbara Hepworth

#16. Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

Petrarch

#17. How much do you know about noctambulism - in other words, sleepwalking?" "I know that people can walk in their sleep. Talk in their sleep. Eat, get dressed and even go out and drive a car in their sleep.

Jo Nesbo

#18. They stared at her together for a moment. Sun beams played over marble, making the pink alabaster glow as if rosy blood danced just under the surface of Aphrodite's skin.

Eloisa James

#19. Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

John Ruskin

#20. Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.'

James Lileks

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

Joseph Addison

#22. Sense of Wonder ( ... ) may be defined as a shift in perspective so that the reader, having been made suddenly aware of the true scale of an event or venue, responds to the revelation with awe.

John Clute

#23. The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#24. A lot of it is found in the editing room and part of that is due to some of the improvisational tactics we employ on set. Part of it is that the shot goes a little bit long and they end up coming down to fit time.

Mark Duplass