Block Quote by Michelangelo

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

— Auguste Rodin

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

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

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

A piece of sculpture has to be more than a block of wood.

— Gutzon Borglum

Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way…

— Urs Fischer

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

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

— Joseph Addison

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering…

— Anonymous

You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.

— Eran Creevy