Quotes about Sculpting
The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.
- Michelangelo
20. "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- Michelangelo
It is beautiful when the Master chisels. God doesn't allow the unglued moments of our lives to happen so we'll label ourselves and stay stuck. He allows the unglued moments to make us aware of the chiseling that needs to be done.
- Lysa TerKeurst
time: It is beautiful when the Master chisels.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.
- Vincent Van Gogh
I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.
- Michelangelo
Sometimes I consider myself there as a stone before a carver, whereof he is to make a statue; presenting myself thus before GOD, I desire Him to form His perfect image in my soul, and make me entirely like Himself.
- Brother Lawrence
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.
- Bruce Lee
Without the potter, clay is just dirt.
- Beth Moore
God has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes until one day there emerges His vision . . . God has not yet finished with us.
- Billy Graham
What do you feel now that I'm soft clay in your hands, Michael?" "Joy," he said. "Pure joy.
- Francine Rivers
And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson