Block Quote by Peter Kreeft

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 sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away…

— Michelangelo

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

— William C. Bryant

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 the soul.

— Joseph Addison

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

— Joseph Addison

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 marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

— Michelangelo

“You are God's chisel; it is you He uses to create masterpieces.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

— Pope Pius IX

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can…

— Henry David Thoreau

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