Art Quote by David duChemin

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

“In his last years, Michelangelo worked on new pietà sculptures—not for any pope, but for his own diversion and probably for his own tomb.…

— Benjamin Blech

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

“Leonardo da Vinci and the much younger Michelangelo had often made it clear that they had no respect for each other’s craft. Leonardo disparaged…

— Benjamin Blech

Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?

— Rainbow Rowell

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

— Michelangelo

“No respect for beauty – that was characteristic of today’s society. The works of the great masters were at most employed as ironic references,…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had…

— Francois Cavanna

“Michelangelo said the best way to judge the essential elements of a sculpture is to throw it down a hill and the unimportant pieces…

— Everwood

“imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free. Most of us regard creativity in the…

— Sean Patrick

“What is this plan, then? What does the great ceiling really mean? To understand it fully, we have to experience it the way that…

— Benjamin Blech

“The goal was to teach and spiritually transform its viewers. But in what way? We have already unveiled many of the artist’s secret messages…

— Benjamin Blech