Ancient Quote by Michel de Montaigne

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

— Demetri Martin

Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.

— Plutarch

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

Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes are not…

— Walter Russell

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

How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye…

— Isaac Newton

“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 envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before…

— Bayard Taylor

I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear…

— Ralph Venning

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them…

— Marilynne Robinson

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

— Martin Puryear