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Statue Quotes

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less Picture Quote #1

By thee do seers the inward light discern; By thee the statue lives, the Gods return Picture Quote #1

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration Picture Quote #1

This was the most unkindest cut of all: For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arms, quite vanquished him: Then burst his mighty heart; and in his mantle muffling up his face, even at the base of Pompey's statue, which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell Picture Quote #1

So stands the statue that enchants the world, so bending tries to veil the matchless boast, the mingled beauties of exulting Greece Picture Quote #1

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry? Picture Quote #1

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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has Picture Quote #1

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead Picture Quote #1

I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It’s hot Picture Quote #1

In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It is the only spot like that left, unclouded by the dwindling skyscrapers rising nearby. It is a good place to go to walk and talk in whispers. Following the little hill that rises from the park to a small clearing which overlooks the statue of the armless general on his bronze steed, most of us later remember this spot as the first place we knew we might be in love Picture Quote #1

I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic Picture Quote #1

I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords Picture Quote #1

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Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic Picture Quote #1

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history Picture Quote #1

Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue Picture Quote #1

I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway Picture Quote #1

Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we must walk mentally around time, using a variety of approaches, a pandemonium of metaphor Picture Quote #1

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue Picture Quote #1

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Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes Picture Quote #1

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over Picture Quote #1

We’re all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I’ll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It’s like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We’re trying to use a thing we don’t understand to understand ourselves Picture Quote #1

In creation myths, a God shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it Picture Quote #1

You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective Picture Quote #1

Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail Picture Quote #1

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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine Picture Quote #1

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person Picture Quote #1

I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good Picture Quote #1

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape Picture Quote #1

Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can’t pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it’s not to his horsemanship Picture Quote #1

There’s no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children Picture Quote #1

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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less (Statue Quotes) By thee do seers the inward light discern; By thee the statue lives, the Gods return (Statue Quotes) Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration (Statue Quotes) This was the most unkindest cut of all: For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arms, quite vanquished him: Then burst his mighty heart; and in his mantle muffling up his face, even at the base of Pompey's statue, which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell (Statue Quotes) So stands the statue that enchants the world, so bending tries to veil the matchless boast, the mingled beauties of exulting Greece (Statue Quotes) Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry? (Statue Quotes) Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has (Statue Quotes) The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead (Statue Quotes) I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It’s hot (Statue Quotes) In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It is the only spot like that left, unclouded by the dwindling skyscrapers rising nearby. It is a good place to go to walk and talk in whispers. Following the little hill that rises from the park to a small clearing which overlooks the statue of the armless general on his bronze steed, most of us later remember this spot as the first place we knew we might be in love (Statue Quotes) I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic (Statue Quotes) I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords (Statue Quotes) Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic (Statue Quotes) Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history (Statue Quotes) Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue (Statue Quotes) I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway (Statue Quotes) Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we must walk mentally around time, using a variety of approaches, a pandemonium of metaphor (Statue Quotes) Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue (Statue Quotes) Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes (Statue Quotes) Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over (Statue Quotes) We’re all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I’ll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It’s like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We’re trying to use a thing we don’t understand to understand ourselves (Statue Quotes) In creation myths, a God shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it (Statue Quotes) You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective (Statue Quotes) Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail (Statue Quotes) Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine (Statue Quotes) It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person (Statue Quotes) I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good (Statue Quotes) A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape (Statue Quotes) Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can’t pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it’s not to his horsemanship (Statue Quotes) There’s no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children (Statue Quotes)

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