I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo
ImaginationAngelFreeHimMarble
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Augustus
CityRomeMarbleBricksLeftFound
Marble is not alike in all countries.
Vitruvius
MarbleAlikeCountries
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
Ada Louise Huxtable
ImaginationDisasterMarbleWhere
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
ArtThoughtArtistMarbleHoldForm
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
Auguste Rodin
ArtChooseNeedWhateverMarbleOff
An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen seated by his goods, absorbed in the morning paper - probably balancing himself on one leg of his chair, with a spittoon by his side.
Isabella Bird
MorningAmericanChairRoofMarble
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Edmund Waller
SeekMarbleMustComePoetsLasting
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
AloneBestWithinMarbleArtists
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Phillips Brooks
LifeWorkWorldLiteratureMarble
I love the classic marble inlay work of Arga.
Adnan Sami
WorkLoveClassicMarbleI Love
'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'
Bayard Taylor
CityThoughtTwoMarbleCallHere
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
Louise Bogan
WorkOutMarbleStatueYourAgony
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
Martin H. Fischer
EducationGreatPovertyDirtMarble
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.
Elbert Hubbard
BeautifulArtProcessMarbleStatue
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
Jean de la Bruyere
PeopleHardPalaceMarbleCourt
I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.
Martin Freeman
TreatMarbleGiantTriedShakespeare
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin
InjuriesWriteDustMarbleBenefits
I used to joke that, since breastfeeding, my boobs looked like an old athletic sock with some loose change at the bottom, so when I felt a lump the size of a marble, I knew something was terribly wrong.
Jessica St. Clair
ChangeWrongOldSizeJokeMarble
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
EducationSoulSculptureMarble
White paint is my marble.
Cy Twombly
WhitePaintMarble
For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.
Ben Elliot
LifeMeGoldPlaceOverMarble
England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
John Burroughs
CountryClayMarbleChalkGranite
If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.
Joseph Rykwert
YouLookStreet1920sMarbleOff
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