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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but a marble statue is cold and speaks to but a few of the most evolved who are able to infuse the statue with their own life.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
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.
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.