(42 quotes found)
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
Michelangelo
“The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.”
“I found Rome brick, I left it marble.”
Augustus Caesar
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.”
Auguste Rodin
“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.”
Bob Kall
“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”
“Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.”
Louise Bogan
“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.”
Raymond Chandler
“Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.”
William Shakespeare
“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
