Quote by Elbert Hubbard

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away

Summary

This quote highlights the process of sculpting and how the artist brings out the inherent beauty of the marble block by removing the surplus material. Just as a sculptor identifies and carves out the unnecessary portions of the block to reveal the desired form, the quote suggests that sometimes in life, achieving beauty, clarity, or success requires eliminating the excess, unessential elements. It implies that simplifying and focusing on what truly matters can lead to impactful and aesthetically pleasing outcomes.

Topics

By Elbert Hubbard

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by

I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition.... we have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.

Spirituality Science Inspirational Christianity

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is.

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

Anatoli Boukreev

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having pa

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an act

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

Christopher Walken

He is incredibly handsome. You never realized before how bea

He is incredibly handsome. You never realized before how beautiful evil could be.

Beauty Evil Sex Attraction Lust Handsome

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that m

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if

He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.

Cassandra Clare

If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good,

If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live

Inspirational Quotes

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compa

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in w

We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole will be greater than all its parts and greater than any society the world has seen before. It can still happen.

Shirley Chisholm

Multiculturalism