#statues

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#artist #cannot #deal #expressed #find

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

#before #blooms #comes #full #hills

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#doctor #earthquake #first #honor #like

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#committees #found #i #parks #searched

I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#madonna #queen #statues #beauty

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand. ↗

— James Thomson

#life #may #pictures #stand #statues

Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#close #features #five #found #four

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#his #i #i think #island #just

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#because #believed #could #even #faith

We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#change #destiny #greater-calling #helping-people #life