Venus De Milo Quotes

• Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

  Charles Fort

  Beautiful, Children, Thinking

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.10, Penguin

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• When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

  John Barrymore

  Boxing, Missing, Gloves

  "The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists". Book by Bert Randolph Sugar and Teddy Atlas, January 11, 2011.

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• The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

  Tom Verlaine

  Song, Love Is, Drug

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• Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

  Mary Pickford

  Movie, Sound Doctrine, Would Be

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Talking pictures are like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

  Mary Pickford

  Talking, Lips, Rouge

  "Mary Pickford Sees Talkies as Lipstick on Milo". Los Angeles Times, p. 1. Cf. "Los Angeles Times", 20 March 1934, p. A4: "Talking pictures are like lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.", March 18, 1934.

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• She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sarcastic, Yellow, White

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• I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid - you'd rather look at that than the Venus de Milo, because you think, Wow, that's really somebody... This camera really was in front of this real naked lady.

  John Currin

  Girl, Depressing, Real

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• Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

  Robert Breault

  Block, Character, Self

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• The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Writing, Creative, Stories

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• Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Mother, Phones, Dinner

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• Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Travel, Society, Shells

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8209, Delphi Classics

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