[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected…

I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.

— Jenova Chen

“You know, a carving, especially if it’s polychrome, is not meant to move. These faces, these half-bodies, when you animate them, they’re more live…

— Jacques Yonnet

With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and…

— Janine Antoni

Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of…

— Aristide Maillol

“ 'And now I Carve the things I saw in my fever dreams, just as they always wished. I dreamed of you, I think.…

— Pierce Brown

“Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard…

— Ken Follett

It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building…

— Craig Thompson

A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio,…

— Henry Moore

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit,…

— Anais Nin

There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes…

— Raymond Chandler

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties'…

— John Szarkowski

One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends,…

— Marya Hornbacher

Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you started), and…

— Terry Pratchett

“Elizabethan cookbooks included not only carving instructions, but the proper terminology for each type of meat such as “breake that deer, leach that brawn,…

— Francine Segan