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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• Today I am
  a small blue thing
  Like a marble
  or an eye

  Suzanne Vega

  Eye, Blue, Today

  Song: Small Blue Thing

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

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Writing, Dust

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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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• 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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• I have nothing
  Of woman in me; now from head to foot
  I am marble-constant.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Feet, Resolution

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. 237

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

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Art, Dear God

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

  Neil Kinnock

  Smile, Missing, Teeth

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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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• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Art, Flesh

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• Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

  Chetan Bhagat

  Degrees, Punjabis

  Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.146, Sandesh S

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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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• 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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• 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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• Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Kindness, Tombstone

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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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