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I like sculpture with broken pieces of Greek ships.

— Billy Zane

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

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

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

I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.

— Al Lopez

I actually got a chance to see the museum and it's incredible, ... The way they built it and the shapes and all the…

— Dr Dre

“The Greeks shape bronze statues so real they seem to breathe, And carve cold marble until it almost comes to life. The Greeks compose…

— Virgil

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk…

— George Segal

Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our…

— Kenneth Clark

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing…

— Ben Shahn

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

— Demetri Martin

[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece.…

— Warren MacKenzie