Masques Block

Famous quotes containing the words masques and/or block:

“I am a fellow o’the strangest mind i’the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Painting consumes labour not disproportionate to its effect; but a fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)