Artist Quote by Michelangelo Download Open image “The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.” — Michelangelo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Grows Marble Sculpture Statues Waste
As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The 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 Copy Share Image
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important. — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. — Horace Copy Share Image
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. — Louise Bogan 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 think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point? — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
