Marble Quotes

253 quotes by 208 authors

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. — Theophile Gautier
In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue… — Stuart Dybek
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These… — C.S. Lewis
From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue, has three hotels… — Tom Robbins
Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and… — Johnny Cash
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble… — Chaim Potok
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together… — Virchand Gandhi
I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian — Chetan Bhagat
The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one… — Hope Mirrlees
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 monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his… — Alfred Armand Montapert
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. — Horace
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. — Joseph Addison
A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of… — Samuel Johnson
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. — Alexander Pope
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls. — Charles Stuart Calverley
Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the… — John Ruskin

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