Statue Quotes

230 quotes by 186 authors

Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes. — Dan Fogelberg
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together… — Virchand Gandhi
Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it… — Elizabeth Kostova
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of… — Walt Whitman
By God, we shall not stop, God willing, except at the doorsteps of the White House, and to raise the banner of monotheism on their… — Osama bin Laden
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. — Joseph Addison
Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were… — Mark Twain
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of… — Plotinus
Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat. — Plotinus
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the… — Ken Livingstone
I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views… — Benvenuto Cellini
A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape. — William Shenstone
It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress. — David Letterman
Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of… — Will Rogers
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as… — Mark Hopkins
There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a… — Alan Jackson
South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but wonâ€™t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone… — Robert Mugabe
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. — Viktor E. Frankl

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