Vénus de milo

A tall woman with dazzling white skin passed by. She looked like the Vénus de Milo with severed arms restored. It hurt to look at her, that’s how beautiful she was.

Hands Like the Vénus de Milo. “I never prayed so much before,” said twenty-eight-year-old place kicker Garo Yepremian after his Miami Dolphins beat the Washington Redskins in the 1973 Super Bowl.

If the work is not created of blood and nerves, if it is not the complete and poignant expression of a creature, I reject the work, be it the Vénus de Milo.

[T]he crowd around the Vénus seemed to me crestfallen, whether because of the great expanse of the Louvre or the gathering dusk, and it was this which prompted the passing thought that we – each of us – wear the same expressionless gaze as the Vénus de Milo.