Stone Carving Quotes

#1. Models need to be judged by what they eliminate as much as by what they include - like stone carving, the art is in removing what you do not need.

John H. Miller

#2. So she moved away from the carving of the mythical stag, instantly cold as she severed contact with the delightful heat living within the stone. Part of her could have sworn that ancient, strange power was sad to see her go.

Sarah J. Maas

#3. I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I didn't.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#4. When carving stone, the sculptor removes everything that is not the statue. [ ... ] The art of revealing beauty lies in removing what conceals it. So, too, Patanjali [in the Yoga Sutras] tells us that wholeness exists within us. Our work is to chisel away at everything that is not essence, not Self.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#5. On the top of my desk there are initials, carved into the wood, and dates ... This carving, done with a pencil dug many times into the warn varnish of the desk, has the pathos of all vanished civilizations. It's like a handprint on stone. Whoever made this was once alive.

Margaret Atwood

#6. There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that can be so chronic and familiar it becomes a kind of feminine Muzak, easy to dismiss, or to tune out altogether, even if you're actively participating in it.

Caroline Knapp

#7. Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

Adrienne Clarkson

#8. Rapid and repeated probing, so typical of these wading birds, is thought to allow them to build up a composite three-dimensional image of food items hidden in the sand.24

Tim Birkhead

#9. Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

William James

#10. What do you do with everything that is cut away? she asked Tilman, thinking now about the negative space of stone sculpture, the stone that is discarded, thinking too about how she had thrown away huge pieces of her own early life ...

Jane Urquhart

#11. Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

Fran Lebowitz

#12. People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.

Dan Auerbach

#13. Your voice tears me away from the reality that I exist and places my mind somewhere in between the infinity and beyond. Where everything is made of bliss and magic. Sometimes, I am scared of not hearing it again and never being able to get separated from this chaotic reality again.

Akshay Vasu

#14. I, too, overflow; ... my body knows unheard-of songs.

Helene Cixous

#15. It was a heavy piece, about thirty inches in height, carved of stone. And so ugly that it defied description. Surely only a blind person could have carved it.
Maybe carving it was what made the person blind.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. Some things can only be done in exchange for life," the man said.

Haruki Murakami

#17. Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring.

Henry Moore

#18. Mr. Hamilton?"
"At your service."
"I stopped at your cabin for you."
"I wasn't there.

Paul McCusker

#19. You have a nice day, you hear?

Charlaine Harris