Ancient Sculpture Quotes

#1. The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

Bayard Taylor

#2. It seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to this vase. I'm afraid he has a weakness for beautiful things and has been known to relocate an item if he feels it is not being accorded the proper appreciation. Once he 'relocated' an ancient sculpture from the home of another archangel.

Nalini Singh

#3. Process can not be inferred from product any more than a pig can be inferred from a sausage.

Don Murray

#4. I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

Lucas Till

#5. In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.

Edward J. Fraughton

#6. Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#7. Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!

Henry Ford

#8. The things we love individually not only determine our character, but what a society loves collectively shapes its culture. This latter idea was the heart of Augustine's great work City of God. He believed societies are the mutual associations of individuals united by what they love in common.

Timothy J. Keller

#9. Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

Alexander Cockburn