#statue

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this peculiarity, that while scores and scores of his male figures are obviously suffused and inspired by a romantic sentiment, there is hardly one of his female figures that is so,—the latter being mostly representative of woman in her part as mother, or sufferer, or prophetess or poetess, or in old age, or in any aspect of strength or tenderness, except that which associates itself especially with romantic love. Yet the cleanliness and dignity of Michel Angelo's male figures are incontestable, and bear striking witness to that nobility of the sentiment in him, which we have already seen illustrated in his sonnets. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#homoeroticism #homosexuality #love #men #michelangelo

There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and placement of the horse's hooves: If one of the horse's hooves is in the air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that the rider was killed in battle; three legs in the air indicates that the rider got lost on the way to the battle; and four legs in the air means that the sculptor was very, very clever. Five legs in the air means that there's probably at least one other horse standing behind the horse you're looking at; and the rider lying on the ground with his horse lying on top of him with all four legs in the air means that the rider was either a very incompetent horseman or owned a very bad-tempered horse. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#horses #humor #statues #humor

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#destroy #destroyed #left #only #percent

Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#religions #sky #small #statues #up

I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot. ↗

— Macy Gray

#bronze #comes #curl #curls #every

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#art #dear #flesh #god #how

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#counts #craft #dance #emmys #exciting

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#i #liberty #recommend #responsibility #statue

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. ↗

— Jose Marti

#beautiful #being #contains #every #god

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

— Michelangelo

#discover #every #inside #over it #sculptor