Top 347 Marble Quotes & Sayings

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

Much rain wears the marble.

Master Michelangelo once said that 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance!

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Marble is not alike in all countries.

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.

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

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.

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.

One should always dress like a marble column.

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.

When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .

England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.

Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but a marble statue is cold and speaks to but a few of the most evolved who are able to infuse the statue with their own life.

Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble.

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.

My eye-balls are glass, my limbs marble, my face fixed in its marble mask.

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.

When people go to museums and see a sculpture made out of marble, they appreciate it but it's very doubtful that they will go home and have a slab of marble they can chip away at, but people do have LEGO. I don't have any LEGO specially made for me, all of the shapes, sizes and colours I use are available in stores so that if someone is inspired to create on their own, they can go and buy the very same bricks.

I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Forget thyself to marble.

Brighter than Parian marble.

Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Today I am a small blue thing Like a marble or an eye

I love the classic marble inlay work of Arga.

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble.

I was obsessed with carrara marble. I had a carrara marble phone case.

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

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole? You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble.

... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.

White paint is my marble.

London really is my city; I was born within a breath of Marble Arch.