Cut Pile

Famous quotes containing the words cut and/or pile:

    “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)

    “Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.”
    —Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)