Famous quotes containing the words michael, david, painter and/or sculpture:
“I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)