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The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A statue is always found in every rock. The only way for everyone to realize that it's there is to remove its rough edges…

— Armee Taylo

Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

— Franz Grillparzer

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

— Horace

The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during millenniums; but…

— Max Heindel

“Eyes have not seen nor ears heard, neither hath it entered into the hearts of men, the things which God hath prepared for those…

— Neville Goddard

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the…

— Joseph Addison

I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.

— Demetri Martin

Statues are one of the ways I try to test the traditions of European culture against the most modern destructive forces. I often make…

— Tony Harrison

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like…

— Ken Livingstone

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

— Pablo Picasso