I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of… — Len G. Murray Copy Share Image
[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it.… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Only drunks stare at statues .... I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA.… — Claudia Jones Copy Share Image
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think… — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The Statue of Liberty means everything. We take it for granted today. We take it for granted. Remember the Statue of Liberty… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
To see my statue unveiled alongside Borje Salming, the player I grew up idolizing in Sweden, will be very special for both… — Mats Sundin Copy Share Image