
“Eu escolho um bloco de mármore e dele retiro tudo o que não preciso.”
Descrevendo a arte de esculpir
“Eu escolho um bloco de mármore e dele retiro tudo o que não preciso.”
Descrevendo a arte de esculpir
“A educação é para a alma o que a escultura é para um bloco de mármore.”
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
"The Spectator (1711-1714)"; No. 215 (6 de novembro de 1711)
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. [...] We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory
One - página 118, Richard Bach - Dell, 1989, ISBN 044020562X, 9780440205623 - 400 páginas
Fonte: Dalla bottega al Vaticano con i gioielli per il Papa http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/bottega-vaticano-i-gioielli-papa.html, ilgiornale.it, Marta Bravi, Quinta-feira, 12 de fevereiro de 2009.
but in every block of marble I see a statue,--see it as distinctly As if it stood before me shaped and perfect In attitude and action. I have only To hew away the stone walls that imprison The lovely apparition, and reveal it To other eyes as mine already see it.
Michelangelo Buonarroti citado em International journal of religious education: Volume 23 - página 23, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Division of Christian Education, International Council of Religious Education - 1946
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