Art Quote by Joseph Addison

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

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best…

— Seth Godin

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag…

— Richard Bach

A fool-proof method for sculpting an horse: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an…

— Anonymous

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

— Auguste Rodin

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an…

— George Bernard Shaw

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

— Auguste Rodin

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If…

— Robert Breault

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

— Claude Chabrol

When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty;…

— Dave Gibbons

I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it... it's just uncrafted, like…

— Michael Sheen

I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so…

— Ivica Dacic

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

— Marcus Porcius Cato

If you go by that little inscription on the Statue of Liberty, the purest idea of America is complete cultural chaos.

— Everlast

“I want to make something of myself. I believe it’s called a statue.”

— Jarod Kintz