Statue

Statue

A statue is a sculpture in the round representing one or more people or animals (including abstract concepts allegorically represented as people or animals), normally full-length, as opposed to a bust, and at least close to life-size, or larger. Its primary concern is representational.

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Famous quotes containing the word statue:

    “The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “The spire cranes. Its statue is an aviary.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Where the statue stood
    Of Newton with his prism and silent face,
    The marble index of a mind for ever
    Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)