Marble Quotes - page 2

As when, O lady mine, With chiseled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mold, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows. (Michelangelo)
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them. View quote
Arthur Koestler
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. View quote
Phillips Brooks
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. View quote
Ada Louise Huxtable
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. View quote
Joseph Rykwert
If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being? View quote
Joy Page
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression. View quote
Karl Philipp Moritz
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. View quote
Louise Bogan
If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp. (Michael Steinhardt)
To prevent Incitatus, his favourite horse, from being disturbed he always picketed the neighbourhood with troops on the day before the races, ordering them to enforce absolute silence. Incitatus owned a marble stable, an ivory stall, purple blankets, and a jewelled collar; also a house, a team of slaves, and furniture – to provide suitable entertainment for guests whom Gaius invited in its name. It is said that he even planned to award Incitatus a consulship. View quote
Suetonius
I dream of cloisters of marble where in divine silence the heroes, standing, rest; at night, in light of the soul, I speak with them: at night! They are in a row: I walk among the rows: the stone hands I kiss them; the stone eyes open; the stone lips move; the stone beards tremble; they seize the sword of stone; they cry: place the sword in the sheath! Mute, I kiss their hand. View quote
José Martí
You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. View quote
Camille Claudel
Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do. View quote
George Eliot
I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain. View quote
Sylvia Plath
He could boast that he inherited it brick and left it marble. View quote
Augustus
I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I remember one vivid winter's day at Versailles. Silence and calm reigned supreme,. Everything gazed at me with mysterious, questioning eyes. And then I realized that every corner of the palace, every column, every window possessed a spirit, an impenetrable soul. I looked around at the marble heroes, motionless in the lucid air, beneath the frozen rays of that winter sun which pours down on us 'without love', like perfect song. View quote
Giorgio de Chirico
They say that that haunting memory-face is modeled from my own, as it was at twenty-five; but upon the marble base is carven a single name in the letters of Attica - HYPNOS. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
And I learned very early [Josef Albers was then ten years old] how to make imitation of wood grain. This is something I have in common with Georges Braque. Braque also learned very early from his father how to imitate marble or wood grain. So I could easily make the appearance of oak or walnut on pine. That is very easy; a very simple technique. And I learned how to imitate marble. I never made such a good joke as Braque did. When he was in the Mediterranean he fooled his friends. He painted a rowboat that had wood on one side and marble on the other side. You see, when he'd row out of the city it looked as if he were in a boat of a different material than when he came back, you see, one side was imitation wood and the other side was imitation marble. (Josef Albers)
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. View quote
Nancy Pelosi
At length I saw a lady within call, Stiller than chisell'd marble, standing there; A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In the interests of research I have walked on many battlefields that once were liquid with pulped men's bodies and spangled with exploded shells and splayed bone. All of them have been green again by the time I got there. Each has inspired a few good quotes in its day. Sad marble angels brood like hens over the grassy nests where nothing hatches. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Yes, the work comes out more fair, From a form that rebels against Handling, Verse, marble, onyx, enamel. View quote
Théophile Gautier