Statues Quotes

128 quotes by 112 authors

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. — Denis Diderot
As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I… — Leopold Stokowski
A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues — E E Cummings
I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your… — Edwidge Danticat
As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces… — Bruno Schulz
What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work,… — Gene Stratton-Porter
I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of… — John Wijngaards
Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos. — Victor Borge
Why would anyone even bring up the issue (of the statues) in a country where there are more than 10 state-owned institutions that teach sculpting… — Gamal El-Ghitani
The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln,… — Gutzon Borglum
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped… — Seth Godin
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture. — Chris Marker
There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues. — Thomas Merton
There are no statues erected to critics. — Tim Ferriss
Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the… — Francine Pascal
Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky — Yoko Ono
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues. — Vincent Van Gogh
Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God — Elyse Fitzpatrick
Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. — Lew Wallace

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