Statue Quotes
If you find your truth you must follow it. You could find it in a paper bag, or in a statue, or in a slaughterhouse; you might find it dangling somewhere. People might say, What the heck are you doing? but its ok if they dont understand. And if you follow it, stay true to it, and respect it, you could be in store for the greatest journey you could ever imagine.
Buckethead
The more the marble wastes,
The more the statue grows.
Michelangelo
As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
Michelangelo
Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.
Pierre Jean de Beranger
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.
Plotinus
As Cole left school that day with Peter, they stopped beside the bulldog statue. "You two are wrecking our school!" shouted one of the jocks walking by. "You can't wreck something that's already wrecked!" Peter shouted back angrily. "Hey, Peter, we're Spirit Bears," Cole reminded his friend. "Spirit Bears are strong, gentle, and kind." Peter thought a moment. "You got mauled, so that proves they can get ticked off too.
Ben Mikaelsen
He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."
Diogenes
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
Novalis
They showed you a statue and told you to pray They built you a temple and locked you away But they never told you the price that you pay For things that you might have done.
Billy Joel
If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue.
Vaclav Havel
If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Andy Zaltzman
I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
Plutarch
