#marble

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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

— Joseph Addison

#education #marble #sculpture #soul

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. ↗

— William C. Bryant

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You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. ↗

— Camille Claudel

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Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

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Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. ↗

— Jose Marti

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