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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.

Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I love the classic marble inlay work of Arga.

Quotes by Adnan Sami

Imagination
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Nov 07, 2020

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Quotes by Ada Louise Huxtable

Countries
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Nov 07, 2020

Marble is not alike in all countries.

Quotes by Vitruvius

Made
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Nov 07, 2020

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Carved
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Michelangelo

Artist
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Michelangelo

Nov 07, 2020

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

Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Joseph Addison

Nov 07, 2020

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 is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on.

Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Must
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Edmund Waller

Nov 07, 2020

White paint is my marble.

Quotes by Cy Twombly

Dust
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Nov 07, 2020

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Here
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Nov 07, 2020

'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

Found
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Augustus

Choose
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Auguste Rodin

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.

Marble Quotes

Quotes on marble, art, and elegant design

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.

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