Art Quote by Ken Livingstone

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

— Demetri Martin

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

— Malvina Hoffman

I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand…

— Leon Battista Alberti

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

If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even…

— Anonymous

Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different to everyone…

— Michael Kimmelman

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

— Michelangelo

I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could…

— Liz Prince

[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

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

There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have to show…

— Kehinde Wiley

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