Marble Quotes

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

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Artist, Form

  Sonnet 15 (translation by Elizabeth Jennings)

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• Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Writing, Dust

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  I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

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• Life is made up of marble and mud.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Life, Mud, Made

  1851 The House of the Seven Gables, ch.2.

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

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Block, Needed

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• Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

  Alexander Pope

  Sculpture, Grew, Warm

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1853). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.62

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• A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1868). “John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people”, p.162

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• Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

  Alexis Carrel

  Motivational Sports, Men, Work Out

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

  Richard Bach

  Block, Tools, Sculpture

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• The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Doe, Conception

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• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Art, Dear God

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• Forget thyself to marble.

  John Milton

  Forget, Forgetfulness, Thyself

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.412

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• The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

  Christopher Wren

  Secret, Excellence, Dachshunds

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• Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

  Aldous Huxley

  Architecture, Sin, Perceive

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

  Neil Kinnock

  Smile, Missing, Teeth

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• Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

  Sara Gruen

  Hard Work, Important, Aging

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• One should always dress like a marble column.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Fashion, Clothes, Dresses

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• Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Kindness, Tombstone

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• In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Attitude, Wall

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• I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

  Augustus

  Latin, Rome, Cities

  "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius, August 28, 2013.

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

  Joseph Addison

  Motivational, Inspiring, Education

  The Spectator, No. 215, November 6, 1711.

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• Much rain wears the marble.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Rain

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1807). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3”, p.359

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• Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Blessing, People

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• Brighter than Parian marble.

  Horace

  Brighter

  Horace (1843). “The Odes of Horace, Translated by J. Scriven”, p.37

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• The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.

  John Lyly

  Rain, Hard

  John Lyly (1868). “Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Editio princeps, 1579. Euphues and his England. Editio princeps, 1580. Collated with early subsequent editions ... Carefully edited by Edward Arber”, p.81

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