“Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.”
Source: Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 146
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“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”
No. 215 (6 November 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“The wrinkles on his forehead are the marks which his mighty deeds have engraved.”
Ses rides, sur son front, ont grave ses exploits.
Don Diego, act I, scene i.
Le Cid (1636)
“There are many who write good deeds in the dust, and injuries on marble.”
Ve ne sono molti che scrivono i beneficii nella polvere, e l'ingiurie nel marmo.
Del Prencipe di Valacchia, p. 79.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 436.
“Half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture.”
Source: 1960s, "Specific Objects," 1965, p. 74; Lead paragraph; partly cited in: Diane Waldman. Carl Andre https://archive.org/stream/carlandre00wald#page/6/mode/1up. Published 1970 by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. p. 6
Context: Half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture. Usually it has been related, closely or distantly, to one or the other. The work is diverse, and much in it that is not in painting and sculpture is also diverse. But there are some things that occur nearly in common.
“That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise.”
Act I.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)
Source: Arabella and the Battle of Venus (2017), Chapter 12, “Marieville” (p. 184)
" To The Stone-Cutters http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/poetry/stone.html" in Tamar and Other Poems (1924)
As quoted in Flicker to Flame : Living with Purpose, Meaning, and Happiness (2006) by Jeffrey Thompson Parker, p. 118
This quotation is likely a modern paraphrasing of a longer passage from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, II.43.3.