Marble Quotes

Marble Quote of the day

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere. Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

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

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

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

My Chevrolet shines like a marble floor. Baby keep it raw, have you modeled before?

One should always dress like a marble column.

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

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

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.

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

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

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

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

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely vulgar seem commonplace.

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

There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top.

The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

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.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor

Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

Forget thyself to marble.

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

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

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab