Block Quote by Michelangelo

A statue is always found in every rock. The only way for everyone to realize that it's there is to remove its rough edges…

— Armee Taylo

Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often…

— John Ruskin

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

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth…

— Bruce Lee

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

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and…

— Peter Kreeft

It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor…

— Walead Beshty

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

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