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“To be an artist is to romance the stone – to love it enough to uncover its beauty.”

Art Beauty Statue Venus De Milo Scuplture

Book:Aphrodite in Pieces

Source: Aphrodite in Pieces

“Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.”

Thinking Mind Children Beautiful Standards Ugly Incomplete Venus Completeness She Is Beautiful Venus De Milo Thinking Of Her

Book:The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

Source: The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration

“Talking pictures are like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.”

Talking Lips Venus Rouge Venus De Milo

Author:Mary Pickford

“Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!”

Said Mother Picks Phones Dinner Call Me Venus Venus De Milo

Author:Red Buttons

“I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid - you'd rather look at that than the Venus de Milo, because you think, Wow, that's really somebody... This camera really was in front of this real naked lady.”

Thinking Looks Real Girl Found Fronts Painting Cameras Photograph Naked Wow Depressing Venus Blurry Polaroids Venus De Milo

Author:John Currin

“When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.”

Missing Arms Boxing Gloves Venus Archaeologists Boxing Gloves Venus De Milo

Author:John Barrymore

“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.”

Would Be Actors Sound Movie Corny Lipstick Venus Sound Doctrine Venus De Milo

Author:Mary Pickford

“The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.”

Whole Song Love Is Subjects Drug Venus Venus De Milo

Author:Tom Verlaine

“Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.”

Ifs May Stills Self Character Faults Shoes Block Masterpiece Statues Dropping Marble Venus Pigeons Chisels Venus De Milo Antioch

Author:Robert Breault

“Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.”

Knows Left Society Travel Towns Lists Dry Shells Tourism Venus Laurels Dodge Travel And Tourism Clams Coliseum Venus De Milo

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.”