Much rain wears the marble.
Brighter than Parian marble.
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
I love you more than my own skin.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face
The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.
A good character is the best tombstone.
Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.
I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains!
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