The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the soul.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts not on marble.

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

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

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 best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.