Deuteronomy 4:15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: 16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deuteronomy 16:22 and thou dost not raise up to thee any standing image which Jehovah thy God is hating.
Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed is the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put it in a secret place,
You should also read Cardinal Newman Development of Christian Doctrine, pages 372, 373.