Atrocious Quote by Giles Gilbert Scott

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

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…

— Virchand Gandhi

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

The Gift belongs to whoever chooses to accept it. It is enough to believe and not to be afraid to make a few mistakes.

— Paulo Coelho

“I’m fairly certain I’m having my first truly religious experience, and it’s probably a very bad thing that it’s happening in a church, but…

— Lisa Desrochers

A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation.

— Lewis Hyde

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

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but…

— John Ruskin

“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

No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire…

— Saint John Chrysostom

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you…

— Melina Mercouri

“Those who might assert that the Catholic Church is meant by these verses, due to its portraying Biblical figures and saints in paintings and…

— John Price