I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
Stephen Wright
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This particular king is famous for having created a huge number of these statues.
Peter Brand
He always liked big things. It was characteristic of his collecting throughout. He enjoyed big pieces of furniture, big statues and big paintings. It was hard to sell him a small painting, small statue or even a chair.
Burton Fredericksen
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Phillips Brooks
PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons.
Ambrose Bierce
I'm personally against seeing my pictures and statues in the streets, ... But it's what the people want.
Saparmurat Niyazov
The statues of archdukes or composers presided with pensive nonchalance.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Disney Company wanted to do a proper 75th-birthday celebration of Mickey. What better way than to do a tour of Mickey statues?
Leila Dunbar
As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.
Leopold Stokowski
The statue, however, when it was removed, revealed itself as a queen of Amenhotep III, whose name appears repeatedly on the statue's crown.
Betsy Bryan
It's important to keep it in context. You don't want some weird thing for Cesar, you want him to be dignified in the same way as the other statues.
Bruce Wolfe
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
Lew Wallace
The campus is wonderful because it has many environments and scales of space that you can find a space for anything. And the statues are part of what gives the campus its stature. They enhance space.
Jim Horner
America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.
Simon Hoggart
The statues add a sense of culture and something beyond just what students are studying. The sculptures take you somewhere else and some of them can be provocative.
Jim Horner
This Buddha represents the meeting of East and West. When Alexander the Great invaded Eastern Asia he brought with him a Greek influence that had a profound effect on the way Asian statues would come to be sculpted. This is a prime example.
Hiroko Koyama
When they were refurbishing buildings, they had no compunction about taking statues of a predecessor and burying them.
Peter Brand
One of those statues will be St. Anthony, who is in a courtyard right now looking at nothing. We want to bring him into the light of day.
Eileen Gutierrez
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