Marble Quotes
Quotes on marble, art, and elegant design
These quotes treat marble as both a real Material - varying from country to country and dressing up grand entrance halls - and a metaphor for potential waiting to be shaped.
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Elegance Quotes
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
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.
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels...
Emotion Quotes
'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'
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One especially memorable line pairs marble with mud to describe life itself: a mix of the polished and the messy, a fitting note of Elegance tempered by realism.
