The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us… — Montgomery Schuyler Copy Share Image
People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past -… — Ted Kulongoski Copy Share Image
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there.… — Chaske Spencer Copy Share Image
I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
“When we gaze at the magnificence of an ancient monument and ascribe its achievement to one man, we are guilty of spiritual… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious… — William James Copy Share Image
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“I want to make of your life a monument For the days you lingered in sadness With high towers and wide gardens… — Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne Copy Share Image
Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert,… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one… — Adrien-Marie Legendre Copy Share Image
The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“They should build a monument,” Cary said. “All the times I got my ass beat to a pulp so the youth of… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate… — Hugh Sidey Copy Share Image
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the… — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining;… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And… — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those… — Henry Waxman Copy Share Image
Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
