Chisel Quotes

53 quotes by 46 authors

• Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul. — Rumi
• What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... — John Burroughs
• I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their… — Frederick Franck
• Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
• It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. — Michelangelo
• Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your… — Ron Kauk
• If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the… — Michelangelo
• God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. — J I Packer
• Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you… — Robert Breault
• There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be… — Robert Breault
• The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of… — John Ruskin
• The chisel is the pen of the sculptor. — Pope Pius IX
• War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• ...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears. — Victor Hugo
• Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. — Henry Ward Beecher
• Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and… — Gabrielle Zevin
• The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence. — P.G. Wodehouse
• I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength… — J I Packer
• Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a… — Arthur Conan Doyle

Who Wrote These Chisel Quotes

46 authors contributed a total of 53 Chisel Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Chisel Quotes by John Ruskin
• 3 Chisel Quotes by Michelangelo
• 2 Chisel Quotes by J I Packer
• 2 Chisel Quotes by Robert Breault
• 2 Chisel Quotes by Victor Hugo
• 1 Chisel Quote by Friedrich Schiller
• 1 Chisel Quote by Steve Pavlina
• 1 Chisel Quote by Rumi
• 1 Chisel Quote by John Burroughs
• 1 Chisel Quote by Frederick Franck
• 1 Chisel Quote by Joseph B. Wirthlin
• 1 Chisel Quote by Ron Kauk
• 1 Chisel Quote by Pope Pius IX
• 1 Chisel Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 1 Chisel Quote by Henry Ward Beecher
• 1 Chisel Quote by Gabrielle Zevin
• 1 Chisel Quote by P.G. Wodehouse
• 1 Chisel Quote by Samuel Butler
• 1 Chisel Quote by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• 1 Chisel Quote by Arthur Tappan Pierson
• 1 Chisel Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 1 Chisel Quote by Rudyard Kipling
• 1 Chisel Quote by Cormac McCarthy
• 1 Chisel Quote by Terry Bradshaw
• 1 Chisel Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni