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Definition of Statue
Statue

The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.

A portrait.

To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue.

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Statue Quotations

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Randolph Bourne

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangelo

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Marcus Porcius Cato

Statue Translations

statue in Afrikaans is standbeeld, beeld
statue in Dutch is beeld, standbeeld
statue in Finnish is patsas
statue in French is statue
statue in German is Standbild
statue in Hungarian is szobor
statue in Italian is statua
statue in Latin is statua
statue in Norwegian is statue
statue in Spanish is estatua
statue in Swedish is staty


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