After death Quote by Horace

“Century and after century, headstones and grave markers were crafted, marble shrines to lost life and to bodies that could neither see nor touch…

— Jacqueline E. Smith

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action.…

— Anonymous

Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary…

— Confucius

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

— Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

— Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

— Joseph Addison

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Pericles

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

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

— Louise Bogan

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

— Ambrose Bierce

[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

“The Marble Tombs that rise on high, Whose Dead in vaulted Arches lye, Whose Pillars swell with sculptur'd Stones, Arms, Angels Epitaphs and Bones,…

— Thomas Parnell - A Night-Piece on death 1721