Carving Quote by Michelangelo Download Open image “Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.” — Michelangelo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Carving Easy
Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it's hard to go back. — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting. — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
The cutting never ends. it goes from your wrist, your whole arms,legs,stomach. it never ends. you think you can stop? its hard to control.… — Patience Copy Share Image
A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of… — Aristide Maillol Copy Share Image
Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
When you see my scars dont tell me to stop cutting. give me a reason to not do it :( — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them. — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and… — Janine Antoni Copy Share Image
Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of… — Aristide Maillol Copy Share Image
“ 'And now I Carve the things I saw in my fever dreams, just as they always wished. I dreamed of you, I think.… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio,… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what might have been the golden age of this speciality - photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving… — John Szarkowski Copy Share
One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you started), and you start cutting the shape that you think you want it to be. But you find, if you do it right, that the wood has a grain of its own (characters develop and present new insights,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
