Statues Quotes

• Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden.

  Richard Realf

  Soul, Breathe, Sculptors

  Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1898). “Poems”

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• It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

  Pablo Picasso

  Strange, Marble, Seems

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.

  Diane Sawyer

  One Day, Pigeons

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• Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Block, Inspiration

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• Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

  Jean Cocteau

  Men, Stones, Lifetime

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• A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.

  Joseph Beach

  Art, Garden, Design

  Joseph Warren Beach (1925). “Meek Americans: & Other European Trifles”

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• All in their lifetime carve their own soul's statue.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Soul, Action, Lifetime

  Thomas Buchanan Read (1868). “Lyric poems. Sylvia; or, the last shepherd. Miscellaneous. Airs from Alpland”, p.208

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• It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Writing, Hands, Simplicity

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• The more the marble wastes,
  The more the statue grows.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Sculpture, Waste

  "Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems" by Mrs. Henry Roscoe, (p. 169), 1868.

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• Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

  Victor Hugo

  Sight, Personality, Watches

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.351

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• No one ever erected a statue of a critic.

  Jean Sibelius

  Critics

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• There is a statue of limitation.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Limitation

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• There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

  Aesop

  Men, Different, Lions

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• A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Dead Man, Rate

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

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, People, Bird

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• I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Thinking, Perfection, Greek

  Mary E. Pearson (2011). “The Fox Inheritance”, p.180, Macmillan

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• A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

  William Shenstone

  Art, Garden, Design

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.59

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• I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

  Plutarch

  Men, Should, Asks

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Attitude, Wall

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• Pay no attention to what the critics say;
  no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

  Jean Sibelius

  Inspirational, Confidence, Perseverance

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• 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.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Art, Drawing, Eight

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• Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky

  Yoko Ono

  Color, Sky, World

  FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Aug 12, 2011

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• When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

  Pythagoras

  Wise, Men, Views

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• Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

  Claude Chabrol

  Pigeons, Facts, Sometimes

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