Carving Quotes

• We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Honesty, Disappointment

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• Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it following one's own desire, or, sometimes, the inspiration of the material itself: this gives the sculptor great joy.

  Aristide Maillol

  Inspiration, Artist, Giving

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• Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

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• Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Cutting, Color

  "The Cut-Outs of Henri Matisse".

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• When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

  Craig Claiborne

  Moving, Food, Dancing

  "Food and Drink: A Book of Quotations". Book by Susan L. Rattiner, September 19, 2012.

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• I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

  Herbie Hancock

  Way, Looking Forward, New Ways

  Twitter post from May 24, 2016

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

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

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• I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

  Sandra Bullock

  Believe, Choices, Freedom Of Choice

  "Sandra Bullock Talks The Lake House". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. June 13, 2006.

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• Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

  Adrienne Clarkson

  Cutting, Glasses, Pieces

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• The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Artist, Form

  Sonnet 15 (translation by Elizabeth Jennings)

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• A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

  Kin Hubbard

  Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Kitchen

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• I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

  Amy Tan

  Love, Pain, Years

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.67, Penguin

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• Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Life, Death, Nature

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• Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Skins, Easy

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• Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality - it resists and makes demands.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Integrity, Ideas, Intuition

  "The Studio 132:643". as cited in Voicing our visions, - "Writings by women artists", ed. by Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York 1991, p. 279, 1946.

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• Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

  Adam Lambert

  Important, Trying, Identity

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• I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

  Martin Puryear

  Casting, Method, I Realized

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• Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

  Jonathan Swift

  Giving, Guests, Able

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.332

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• Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

  Randolph Bourne

  Anger, Society, Likes

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.133, Univ of California Press

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• Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Sports, Fitness, Knives

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• I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone - all-star cast and it was a fun set to be on. I've gotten really lucky to get all these down-to-earth cast members. 'Butter''s about butter carving in Iowa.

  Ashley Greene

  Stars, Fun, Iowa

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• The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

  Horace

  Stupid, Water, Literature

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• When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?

  Sandi Toksvig

  Women, Past, Feminist

  "Sandi Toksvig's top 10 unsung heroines" by Sandi Toksvig, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2009.

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• Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and rain alone shall wear them away.

  Gutzon Borglum

  Prayer, Rain, Men

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• Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

  Alanis Morissette

  Teenager, Taken, Eye

  "This much I know: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Kerry Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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