People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.
I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.
Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.
I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
We cannot deny that 80 or even 90 percent of the spiritual treasures from the past 3,000 years have come from Europe. There is no other Greek theatre anywhere else in the world. There is no other Shakespeare, Dante or Cervantes.
People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
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