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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.

I love the classic marble inlay work of Arga.

Quotes by Adnan Sami

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Quotes by Ada Louise Huxtable

Marble is not alike in all countries.

Quotes by Vitruvius

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Elegance Quotes

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Quotes by Michelangelo

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Quotes by Michelangelo

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.

Quotes by Joseph Rykwert

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Quotes by Joseph Addison

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...

Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Emotion Quotes

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Quotes by Edmund Waller

White paint is my marble.

Quotes by Cy Twombly

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

Quotes by Bayard Taylor

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Quotes by Augustus

Material Quotes

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Quotes by Auguste Rodin

Frequently Asked Questions

How is marble described physically in these quotes?
As a material that isn't alike in all countries, and as a striking feature of grand building interiors like 1920s and 1930s skyscraper entrance halls.
Is there a metaphorical use of marble in this set?
Yes, one quote frames uncarved marble as pure creative potential, able to take the shape of any thought a great artist imagines.
What does "life is made up of marble and mud" mean?
It suggests life mixes the polished and admirable with the messy and ordinary, using marble and mud as opposite ends of that spectrum.
Do any quotes connect marble to architecture specifically?
Yes, one recalls skyscraper entrance halls from the 1920s and 1930s filled with marble and elaborate display, describing them as welcoming public spaces.
Why would marble quotes link to Nature quotes?
Because marble itself is a natural material shaped by geological processes long before it becomes art or architecture, connecting it to broader Nature themes.

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.