Marble Quotes

“Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“You make the rarest canvas, love”
― Madeline Miller, Galatea

“If you are a person with sound judgment, you will not hesitate to sculpt the marble into an inspiring piece of meaningful art.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.”
― José Ortega y Gasset, On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme

“The floor consisted of the most colorful marble that is found in our mountains. The slabs overlapped so well that scarcely a joint could be seen; the marble was smoothed and polished very finely and the colors so arranged that the floor gave the impression of a lovely picture. Moreover it gleamed and shimmered in the light that was streaming in from the windows.”
― Adalbert Stifter, Indian Summer

“Swallowing, he entered the second code. Then there was a sound like a marble dropping on the floor - bouncing slowly, gradually getting faster as it dropped lower and lower… The thing was toying with him! Where was it? He strained his hearing, but all was again silent. He wanted to shout and scream obscenities at it, but he fought the impulse. It might not really know his location after all - and that would've led it right to him. It must be coming for him! It must be by the door by now, looking for a way in. Time was running out. He hastily keyed in the third and last code.
Death the destroyer never is late!”
― Christina Engela, Demonspawn

“Pulling down statues of rock from their high places
we must level the expectation
upon which they stand
waiting for us
to fulfill their image
waiting
for our feet to replace them.

Unless we refuse to sleep
even one night in houses of marble
the sight of our children's false pleasure
will undo us
for our children have grown
in the shadow of what was
the shape of marble
between their eyes and the sun
but we do not wish to stand
like great marble statues
between our children's eyes
and their sun.”
― Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

“As a building stone, marble was first used extensively by Pericles in the construction of the Parthenon in Athens in about 438 B.C.”
― John T. Spike, Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine

“The past is marble. It's unmovable, and the you from then is no more than a statue—a likeness of you that looks like you but is not you.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“Bleed me of art, and there won’t be enough liquid left in me to spit.” - Michelangelo”
― Irving Stone