Quotes About Madonnas

Historian Garry Wills later captured the 1950s liberal Catholic's affinity for "steel and glass fish-shaped churches, and driftwood-swirl Madonnas, and wrought-iron abstract tracery for the stations of the cross (artily photographed in Jubilee)."31

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.

Let's say the madonnas of the night in Elm were severely disappointed in the Black Company.

In the music class, in the ballads she sang, there was no question of anything but little golden-winged angels, madonnas, lagoons, gondoliers, peaceful compositions which allowed her to glimpse, through the inanity of language and the forced notes, the enticing phantasmagoria of sentimental truths.

There are no brunettes...among Florentine Madonnas.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

Frida is a detour and a distraction. It was her genius as an artist, and her neurotic narcissism, to turn her whole self into art—her love, her suffering, her accident-prone life—and in the process make herself an icon, for the Mexican tradition is full of icons, especially of madonnas.

Marcia would love this—sometimes people see visions of her in the churchyard. Marcia's always having visions. Usually of white Madonnas, though, with blond hair and nice blouses from M & S. . . .

I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness.