Best stones & statues Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.”

Children Work Class Hero Fame Stones Rewards Halls Working Class Statues Hall Of Fame Working Class Hero

Author:Alan Jackson

“South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner”

Men Black White Stones South Kicks South Africa White Man Statues Foreigners Slap

Author:Robert Mugabe

“Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.”

Doe Art Real Shows Artist Essentials Art Is Stones Core Crafts Visible Works Of Art Statues Real Questions

Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“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

“When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.”

Looks Made Said Easy Stones Chips Statues

Author:Michelangelo

“It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other hand, abstract belief is largely impossible; it is the concrete, the actuality of the cup, the candle, the sacrificial stone, which hardens belief; the statue is nothing until it cries, the philosophy is nothing until the philosopher is martyred.”

Matter Philosophy Hands Might Belief Impossible Cry Stones Philosopher Cups Abstract Candle Concrete Statues Exotic Actuality Martyred

Author:Shirley Jackson

“Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone; a candid hand; a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race; a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.”

Art Hands Faces Born Race Feet Stones Speed Naked Knees Bent Statues Shattered Candid Debris Torso

Author:Stephanie Crayencour

“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

“All over France, in every city there stand cathedrals like this one, triumphant monuments of the past. They tower over the homes of our people like mighty guardians, keeping alive the invincible faith of the Christian. Every arch, every column, every statue is a carved leaf out of our history, a book in stone, glorifying the spirit of France.”

People Book Home Christian Past Spirit Cities Alive Stones France Towers Leafs Guardian Statues Monument Columns Invincible Cathedrals Triumphant Arches

Author:Sonya Levien

“I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?”

Men Stones Fats Block Statues Fat Man Thin Man

Author:George Orwell

“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

“I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.”

Thinking Men Made Age Beautiful Gone Objects Ought Thousand Stones Skins Woods Bones Fabric Tribes Statues Ivory Fetish Prehistoric Stone Age Beautiful Objects Prehistoric Man African Tribes

Author:Pablo Picasso

“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

“I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.”

Said Three Jesus Parent Stones Arguing They Said Statues Puzzled

Author:Cat Stevens

“Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him. As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind.”

Ifs World Stills Feelings Running Night Sleep Fire Feet Strange Wind Battle Stones Horse Noise Cried Statues Flew Trumpets Pippin

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“Maybe in the morning, sunlight would to turn him back into a statue; then I could take Stone out to the forest where he could frolic among the ferns, gurgle at streams, and make friends with the other interesting rocks.”

Turns Interesting Morning Rocks Stones Forests Streams Sunlight Statues Ferns

Book:Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel

Source: Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel

“Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me of Michelangelo, who believed that every block of stone he carved had the statue waiting inside and that all he did was reveal it. I think I've had yarn speak to me during the knitting process, and I've definitely spoken to it. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, or maybe my yarn and I aren't on such good terms, but it really seems to me that all I say is "please" and all it ever says is "no".”

Thinking Mind Seems Speak Waiting Process Term Please Projects Stones Block Statues Knitting Yarn Knitters

Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.”

Men Made Stones Lifetime Great Men Thrown Statues

Author:Jean Cocteau

“Neither torch nor dagger," Annabeth said firmly. "There is a third test, which I will pass." "A third test?" the pater demanded. "Mithras was born from rock," Annabeth said, hoping she was right. "He emerged fully grown from the stone, holding his dagger and torch." The screaming and wailing told her she had guessed correctly. "The big mother knows all!" a ghost cried. "That is our most closely guarded secret!" Then maybe you shouldn't put a statue of it on your altar, Annabeth thought.”

Knows Said Bigs Mother Born Secret Rocks Stones Tests Thirds Ghost Cried Statues Altars Torches Guarded Annabeth Daggers Wailing

Author:Rick Riordan

“A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."”

Ifs Heart Said Wish Prayer Deals Stones Blow Like Me Knees Preacher Hammers Statues Marble Workmen Cutters Chisels

Author:Arthur Tappan Pierson

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