Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. [....] Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world,… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk… — Lucia Perillo Copy Share Image
not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Arsenal have class. I remember when I was at Spurs, the Arsenal players would arrive for matches in their navy blazers with… — Jimmy Greaves Copy Share Image
As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
“Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
