Statues Quotes - Page 2

• Como en Roma hay, aparte de los romanos, una población de estatuas, así, aparte de este mundo real, hay un mundo de ilusión, casi más potente, en el que viven la mayoría de los hombres.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Real, Men, Rome

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.90, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Pedestal, Fame

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• A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Ideas, Iron, Fixed

  Hippolyte Taine (1875). “Notes on Paris”, p.58

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• Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Genius, Madness

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• Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Breathing, Silence

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “To Music”

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• Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity.

  Marco Vitruvio Polio

  Sacrifice, East, Looks

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book IV, Chapter IX, Section 1), circa 15 BC.

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• No puedo imaginar lo que es criarse en una sociedad en la que las únicas estatuas que existen son la tuya y la de tu padre.

  Madeleine Albright

  Father, Imagine, Raised

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• The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Baseball, Tired

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• I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

  Steven Wright

  Museums, Arms, Comedy

  "Steven Wright Special". Comedia, 1985.

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• He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

  Arthur Ayuda

  Views, Forever, Pedestal

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• We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

  Walter Scott

  Responsibility, Snow, Matrimony

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• ... el conocimiento debe renovarse continuamente mediante un esfuerzo incesante, si no quiere perderse. Se asemeja a una estatua de mármol que está en el desierto y a la que la arena movediza amenaza continuamente con sepultar. Las manos del servicio deben estar siempre trabajando, para que el mármol siga brillando duraderamente bajo el sol. A esas manos de servicio pertenecerá también la mía.

  Albert Einstein

  Educación, Manos, Orden

  Albert Einstein (2011). "Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words", p.26, Open Road Media.

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• When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it because its stews taste exactly like your old mother's hash, or to reject it because the owl-headed goddess of wisdom in its temple is fatter than the Statue of Liberty, is an equal mark of that want of imagination, that inaccessibility to experience, of which each of us who dies a natural death will die.

  Randall Jarrell

  Mother, Country, Law

  "The Obscurity of the Poet," Harvard University lecture, published in "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, 1953.

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• 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

  Ideas, Icons, Wish

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.48, Penguin

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• 

  Creo que nadie debería leer poesía o contemplar cuadros o estatuas si no encuentra en ellos mucho más de lo que el poeta o el artista han expresado realmente. Su mayor mérito es la sugestión.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Artista, Pensamiento, Perspectiva

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). "Las obras completas de Nathaniel Hawthorne: novelas, cuentos, poemas, ensayos, cartas y memorias (ilustradas): La letra escarlata con su adaptación, La casa de los siete tejados, El romance de Blithedale, Cuentos de Tanglewood, Marca de nacimiento, El fantasma del doctor Harris... (Incluye biografías y crítica literaria)", p.1086, e-artnow

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• How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues, proportioned to no purpose. "It may well be imperfect," I say, "but it leaves traces. And we can follow those traces, like footsteps in the snow." "Where do the lead?" "To oneself," I answer. "That's where the mind is. Without the mind, nothing leads anywhere." I look up. The winter moon is brilliant, over the Town, above the Wall. "Not one thing is your fault," I comfort her.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Winter, Moon

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• The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Men, Squares

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays”

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• La estatua es entonces bella cuando empieza a ser incomprensible, cuando se sale de la crítica y ya no puede definirse con compás y vara de medir, sino que exige una imaginación activa que la acompañe y diga lo que está haciendo.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Imagination, Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Simple, Interesting, Humanity

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• I am just...wondering, where is the glow of yesteryear? I'm wondering where the heroes went. Gosh, I don't know how long ago they left. Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities, and you really have an America that is back on its feet, a comfortable nation to live in again. I really think we're gonna have to reassess what constitutes a hero.

  Tom McCall

  Hero, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The Statue of Liberty means everything. We take it for granted today. We take it for granted. Remember the Statue of Liberty stands for what America is. We as Democrats have to remind ourselves and remind the country the great principles we stand for. This is a place of protection. This is not a country of bullies. We are not an empire. We are the light. We are the Statue of Liberty.

  Jerry Springer

  Country, Mean, Light

  "Leaving the Fold". "This American Life" podcast, 258, www.thisamericanlife.org. January 30, 2004.

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• El marqués suspiró. "Creía que era sólo una leyenda", dijo. "Como los caimanes de las alcantarillas de New York". Old Bailey asintió, sabiamente: "¿Qué, los grandes bichos blancos? Están ahí abajo. Un amigo mío perdió la cabeza a manos de uno de ellos". Un momento de silencio. El viejo Naeiley devolvió la estatua al marqués. Luego levantó la mano y la chasqueó, como una mano de cocodrilo, contra el Carabas. "Estaba bien", gesticuló el Viejo Bailey con una sonrisa que era de lo más terrible de contemplar. "Tenía otra.

  Neil Gaiman

  New York, Manos, Ciudades

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• Maybe in the morning, sunlight would to turn him back into a statue; then I could take Stone out to the forest where he could frolic among the ferns, gurgle at streams, and make friends with the other interesting rocks.

  Devon Monk

  Morning, Rocks, Interesting

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.134, Penguin

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• ...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises." ~ Josephine Baker, once she had seen the Eiffel Tower

  Josephine Baker

  Color, Promise, Liberty

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• The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.

  Hans Hofmann

  Arte, Mentira, Expresión

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Painting and Culture", p. 55, 1948.

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