Books Quote by Leslie Parrish

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

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for…

— Henry Moore

The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve away everything…

— Sheena Iyengar

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away…

— Michelangelo

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

— Pericles

I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay…

— Erykah Badu

Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability…

— Barbara Hepworth

“One of the strangest things is the act of creation. You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone…

— Vera Nazarian

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit…

— Willa Cather