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“In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.”

Writing Form Creation Shapes Stones Myth Block Pot Mud Clay Statues Potters Marble Sculptors Creation Myths

Author:Stuart Dybek

“A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.”

Way Made Born Stones Made It Gentleman Rough Sculptors

Book:The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

Source: The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

“What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.”

Men Giving Hands Chance Design Stones Providence Rude Sculptors Mould

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.”

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.”

Thinking Mind Different Thousand Stones Eternity Block Data Thoughtful Statues Sculptors

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for dogs, cats, and chimpanzees but doesn't work quite so well for women and men. Without the capacity to freely shape our own lives, much as a sculptor might carve stone, we inevitably slip into negativity and depression.”

Ifs Men Humans Wells Might Realizing Human Beings Levels Failing Dog Fine Shapes Men And Women Capacity Stones Cat Slips Negativity Sculptors Full Potential Chimpanzees Animalistic

Author:H. E Davey

“As sculptors chip away the stone in order to find the statue, writers chip away extraneous verbiage so readers can see the shape of an idea clearly. My gift is to see through the confusion, to bring order and simplicity to a story.”

Ideas Stories Order Reader Shapes Stones Simplicity Confusion Chips Statues Sculptors

Author:Leslie Parrish

“The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.”

Mind Stones Block Data Sculptors

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.”

Men World Giving Pain Form Suffering Hurt Perfect Stones Blow Block God Love Deaf Sculptors God Loves Us Chisels Suffering Pain

Author:C. S. Lewis

“There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices are flowing, that's incredibly exciting. When you've managed to fit a complex set of actions or a complicated emotional passage into a single page there's the sense of satisfaction that I suspect a sculptor gets from chipping away at a piece of stone and ending up with a fully-realized work of art.”

Mind Art Use Action Certain Focus Pieces Emotional Fit Pages Advantage Stones Exciting Pressure Complexes Satisfaction Complicated Suspects Works Of Art Passages Juice Sculptors Chipping Away

Author:James Vance

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”

Art Inspiration Practice Stones Tasks Block Sculpture Statues Sculptors

Author:Michelangelo

“The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.”

Hands Artist Break Figures Stones Transformation Spells Shells Sculpture Marble Sculptors Sculpting Best Artist

Author:Michelangelo

“Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.”

Ifs Trying Realizing Stones Sight Blind Unity Treasure Sculptors

Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

“Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.”

Men Humans Art Use Used Sound Movement Materials Stones Dance Woods Painter Works Of Art Composer Sculptors Raw Materials Pigment

Author:Ted Shawn