“Away with this prating dotard,” said Front-de Boeuf, “lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. Look how many people love the foot of the baby! 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. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.Statues are one of the ways I try to test the traditions of European culture against the most modern destructive forces. I remembered myself then as a little girl, living under that oppression. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation.With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. Poetry can hurt and it can heal. 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.” We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. “Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. I remembered myself then as a little girl, living under that oppression.People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete.We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. “N'est-il pas évident que le même Dieu qui a dit : “There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. It is complex, plastic and ever-changing; all things that heroic statues are not.I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.Historians spend their days engaged in the literally endless task of reshaping and expanding our view of the past, while statues are fixed and inflexible.Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images. “Pulling down statues of rock from their high placesThe Intermediate Sex: A Study Of Some Transitional Types Of Men And Women In "The Materials of Sculpture", Nicholas Penny writes: "Granite had occasionally been worked in shallow relief, for architectural ornament where it was the local building stone, and for the stiff figures of sixteenth-century cavalries in Brittany, but, before the advent of improved metals and power-driven tools in the nineteenth century, the idea of making statues out of it was seldom seriously entertained by sophisticated sculptors.” They cower, slight and childlike.” I think that's what I'd like to do.Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. 3. “Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.” No, you just get credit for one job.I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. “I always thought that would be really neat if black people ever got control of the United States we would, of course, tear down some of the statues because we just don't like them...like all of Richmond would probably not have a statue standing.” Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking At The Harlem Renaissance Through Poems “The sheer volume of granite, diorite, and alabaster that was cut precisely into statues around Luxor attests to the ancient Egyptians' mastery of their craft. The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for GodCity Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World “(One difference between old-style autocrats, such as Caesar, Louis XIV, or Napoleon, and their totalitarian successors is the replacement of the marble statue in the middle of the square with an embalmed corpse.)