Chisels Quote by Pope Pius IX Download Open image “The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.” — Pope Pius IX ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chisels Funny Inspirational Love Pens Sculptors
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches… — John Ruskin 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
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. — Henry Moore 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
“Thought - or suggestion - is able to mold the human body as a sculptor chisels his clay.” — Émile Coué Copy Share Image
What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated? — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the true causes of the destruction of states; they have been the ruin of France. Believe me, the evil I denounce is more terrible than the Revolution, more terrible even than The Commune. I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism,… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share
[Dr. Constain James] refuted so well the aberrations of Darwinism… [A system] which is repugnant at once to history, to the tradition of all people, to exact science, to observed facts, and even to reason itself, would seem to need no refutation. But the corruption of this age, the machinations of the perverse, the danger of the simple, demand that… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share
Now you know well that the most deadly foes of the Catholic religion have always waged a fierce war, but without success, against this… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire. — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church. — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization. — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
The foundation of all our confidence is found in the Blessed Virgin Mary. God has committed to her the treasury of all good things,… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not permit anyone… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary. — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist? — Friedrich Schiller 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
What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated? — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there… — Robert Breault Copy Share
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without… — Herbert Read Copy Share
It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface… — Robert Breault Copy Share
Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who was uglier than he had any business to be;" and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has… — Alexander Smith Copy Share
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf… — John Ruskin Copy Share