“The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.”
Michelangelo
“Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.”
Louise Bogan
“If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?”
Joy Page
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed--it is a process of elimination.”
Elbert Hubbard
“With the affairs of active human beings it is different. Here knowledge of truth alone does not suffice; on the contrary this knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which st”
Albert Einstein
“We are like these children, holding a marble in their left hand and not letting it go until they are sure that the swap is in their right hand: we would like to have a new life but without losing the former life. We refuse the moment of passage, the moment of the empty hand.”
Christian Bobin (french author)
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
