Marble Quote by Pablo Picasso Download Open image “It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.” — Pablo Picasso ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Marble Seems Statues Strange
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
When people go to museums and see a sculpture made out of marble, they appreciate it but it's very doubtful that they will go… — Nathan Sawaya 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 marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important. — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back. It wasn't… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr.,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting pulled up… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs...and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue...and I'd… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“Well, we were always going to fail that one,” said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fortunately, when we have all our marbles, we can shift our memories very quickly. — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... — John Burroughs Copy Share Image