Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel…

The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches…

— John Ruskin

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

— Pope Pius IX

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

— Friedrich Schiller

I want to strip my work of 'effects' until it stands monolithic, based on reality and yet transcending it. It must flow naturally from…

— Shiko Munakata

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our…

— Orison Swett Marden

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

— Rumi

What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“What could you possibly write at Gates of Hades?” Cadmus asked. “Keep your spirits up.” Lycon sheathed the dagger he’d used to chisel the…

— Sulari Gentill

“She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys to smooth…

— Thomm Quackenbush

A small chisel can break a rock, like a true love can melt a stony heart!

— My Brain Thought

“Love and kindness are the hammer and chisel that gently chip through barriers and long-held beliefs to reveal the magnificent soul contained within every…

— Molly Friedenfeld

“Get the chisel out and start making something real. Anything else is just a distraction.”

— Jason Fried

“Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.”

— Rumi

“You are God's chisel; it is you He uses to create masterpieces.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

We are like rocks and our under-estimators are the hammer, make sure you had placed the chisel while they starts to destroy you. One…

— Anonymous