Michelangelo
Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."
Marble quotes
Marble
17 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William C. Bryant
Poet
"A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Much rain wears the marble."
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues."
Amy Lowell
Poet
"Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin"
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"Men have marble, women waxen, minds."
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