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" A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. "
Ada Louise Huxtable
" A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. "
William C. Bryant
" England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay. "
John Burroughs
" For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place. "
Ben Elliot
" I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. "
Auguste Rodin
" I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. "
Augustus
" 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
" Information is lightning-quick. It crosses cities, states, and national borders in the twinkle of an eye. It passes through many kinds of devices, flowing from phone to phone and computer to computer, rather than being sealed away in those silent marble temples we used to call banks. "
Sarah Jeong
" I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. "
Michelangelo
" Life is made up of marble and mud. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
" Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. "
Alexis Carrel
" Marble is not alike in all countries. "
Vitruvius
" Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. "
Edmund Waller
" '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
" The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. "
Michelangelo
" The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. "
Martin H. Fischer
" The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. "
Michelangelo
" 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 is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on. "
Jonathan Safran Foer
" 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
" What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. "
Joseph Addison
" Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. "
Benjamin Franklin
" Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. "
Benjamin Franklin
" You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. "
Camille Claudel
" Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. "
Louise Bogan
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