If they want to get [my statue of] the Commandments, they're going to have to get me first. — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in… — Maynard Owen Williams Copy Share Image
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a… — Stephanie Crayencour Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder. — Octavian Paler Copy Share Image
Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand. — James Thomson Copy Share Image
I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory. I believe in the momentous value, hereafter inviolable, of those few truly fraternal… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
“Obelisks don't grow from the soil, and stone men and iron horses are never built without purpose.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon… — Plotinus Copy Share Image