Bird Quote by 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

Because of you, I love the white statues Drowsing in the parks, the white statues that Have neither voice nor sight

— Hussein Nishah

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action.…

— Anonymous

“For the images of the gods are much easier to misuse for human purposes than the gods themselves. Images have no will and no…

— Kai Meyer

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've…

— Tommy Douglas

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

— Pablo Picasso

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it…

— Randolph Bourne

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really…

— Cy Twombly

Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But…

— Carl Sagan

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the…

— James A. Garfield

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

— Jean-Francois Millet