
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
A collection of quotes on the topic of carving, likeness, stone, time.
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
Source: Letter to Edward Lytton Bulwer from Constantinople, Turkey (27 December 1830), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (1929), p. 174
Source: Strangeland
“Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.”
“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 4.
Source: 1932 - 1946, The Studio 132:643', (1946), p. 279
David Tennant on fan obsession, The Graham Norton Show, 14 April 2011
Source: Graham Norton welcomes David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Josh Groban and Jon Richardson, BBC Press Office, 15 April 2011, 15 April 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/04_april/15/norton.shtml,
“But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?”
Balaustion's Adventure.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
<span class="plainlinks"> Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/</span>
From Prose
Falsely attributed to Darwin, but actually from The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905) by Thomas Dixon, page 134 http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books/c/11773-the-clansman-by-thomas-dixon?start=133.
Misattributed
China as a Heap of Loose Sand (1924)
Part of Me
Lyrics, Miscellaneous
“I could carve a better man out of a banana. ”
Source: We'll go asleep, poems and ballads, "Untill she is to close", pg 64
26 June 1875, page 208
John of the Mountains, 1938
Source: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
“I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars…”
Source: Letters of Ted Hughes
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
“If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.”
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Cauldron (2007), Chapter 28 (p. 256)
1920s, Address at the Black Hills (1927)
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter IX, Sec. 9
Rep. Budd: The Political Market vs. the Private Market http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/02/rep-budd-political-market-vs-private-market/ (May 2, 2017)
I'd Love to Write Another Song
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)
“It's very challenging to carve back market share.”
The New York Times: "40 Busy Years Later, Paul Allen, a Microsoft Founder, Considers His Creation" https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/40-busy-years-later-a-microsoft-founder-considers-his-creation/ (03 May 2015)
Awadh (Uttar Pradesh), Mir‘at-i-Mas‘udi in Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own historians, Vol. II. p. 524-547
Quote in 'The Listener', 13 November 1941, pp. 657-9; as cited in Henry Moore writings and Conversations, ed. Alan Wilkinson, University of California Press, California 2002, p. 126
1940 - 1955
Hepworth's quote in: 'Approach to Sculpture', The Studio, London, October 1946, Vol. CXXXII, no. 643, p. 97
Hepworth is here referring to Giovanni Ardini's remark that "marble changes colour under different people's hands"
1932 - 1946
As quoted in Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 206
quote after 1959, in Andre's early artistic career, when he made his sculpture 'Last Ladder'
Woonotes II, st. 7
1840s, Poems (1847)
Quote in 'Unpublished notes' 1951, HMF Archive; as cited in Henry Moore writings and Conversations, ed. Alan Wilkinson, University of California Press, California 2002, p. 121
1940 - 1955
11 October 1492
Journal of the First Voyage
Biblical Lectures
"A Young Girl's Primer" (1966)
Bloomberg: Apple's Cook to Meet With Trump Amid China Trade Tensions https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-25/apple-s-cook-to-meet-with-trump-amid-u-s-china-trade-tensions (25 April 2018)
America...You Kill Me
Variant: We want to be able to move freely and safely in our daily lives, free from the threat of random hate violence. themselves by turning the Constitution on its head and claim protection and permission to demonize and denigrate us. Hiding behind the perversion of the concepts of religious freedom and political speech, those people have carved out a special right to impose their bigotry and hatred for us.
From Journey of the Universe:
After all those years of being naturally sensitive and gentle, and now I've got to turn myself inside out just to appear sexy. It's fun and it's nice, but I do wish I could just be myself again.</p></blockquote>
Who Is the Victim? Who Is the Oppressor?, pp. 165–166
The New Male (1979)
A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud
In response to Hannah More wondering why Milton could write Paradise Lost but only poor sonnets. June 13, 1784, p. 542
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Art
Song lyrics, The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 (2010), Long Time Gone (recorded 1962)
Source: Wonderful Life (1989), p. 52
Making liberal men and women : public criticism of present-day education, the new paganism, the university, politics and religion https://archive.org/stream/makingliberalmen00butluoft/makingliberalmen00butluoft_djvu.txt (1921)
He at the same time assured Mahmood, that to whomsoever he should bequeath the throne at his death, he himself would confirm and support the same.'
Tarikh-i-Firishta, translated into English by John Briggs under the title History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India, 4 Volumes, New Delhi Reprint, 1981. p. 38-49 (Alternative translation: "but the champion of Islam replied with disdain that he did not want his name to go down to posterity as Mahmud the idol-seller (but farosh) instead of Mahmud the breaker-of-idols (but shikan)." in Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 3)
Sack of Somnath (1025 CE)
Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)
Confucius: The Secular as Sacred (1998)
Source: Interview by Rynn Berry, pp. 137-38
in a letter to de:Gustav Schiefler from Dresden, 27 June, 1911; as quoted in German Expressionist Sculpture, ed. Stephanie Barron, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1983, p. 114
1905 - 1915
On the cultural aspect of India.
Q&A with Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor and author of The Hindus
Society and Solitude, Art
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Savage Nation (1995- ), 2015