Quotes About Sculptor

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

Gutzon Borglum, the man most famous for sculpting Mount Rushmore.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there's a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life." ? C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Todo el mundo tiene la fortuna entre las manos, como un escultor que maneja el material que transformará en una figura... Es necesario aprender y cultivar atentamente la habilidad para moldear el material y darle la forma que queramos.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. . . . The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated." —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

A person is formed by experiences. The past is a blind sculptor. To deny that artist his masterwork is to mock your own experience.

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

One Egyptian word for sculptor was actually 'He-who-keeps-alive.

You are the sculptor of your success. Chisel and carve yourself into excellence.

You are the sculptor of your success. Chisel yourself into excellence.

If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.

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.

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.

The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.

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.

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.

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

I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

there was also a celebrated official sculptor whose works disfigured the whole of Paris

The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.

Michelangelo, however, stood apart from these musical parties. It sounds as though, even as an adolescent, he was already antisocial, reclusive and driven: constantly drawing and carving. Only such dedication could explain the rapidity of the progress he made. Within two years, he had become as skilful a sculptor in marble as any alive.