Cut Stone

Famous quotes containing the words cut stone, cut and/or stone:

    “Duccio came not by usura
    nor Pier della Francesca; Zuan Bellin’ not by usura
    nor was ‘La Calunnia’ painted.
    Came not by usura Angelico; came not Ambrogio Praedis,
    Came no church of cut stone signed: Adamo me fecit.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “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)

    “Now my saying shall be my undoing,
    And every stone I wind off like a reel.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)