Artist Quote by Bruce Lee

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.

— Eran Creevy

Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

— Michelangelo

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

— Michelangelo

“Eyes have not seen nor ears heard, neither hath it entered into the hearts of men, the things which God hath prepared for those…

— Neville Goddard

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the…

— Joseph Addison

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

— Chuck Close

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process…

— Elbert Hubbard

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often…

— John Ruskin

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away…

— Michelangelo

“The story is told of Michelangelo being asked about his methods for sculpting. He replied simply that he worked on a block of marble,…

— David duChemin

The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve away everything…

— Sheena Iyengar