Airport Quote by Daven Anderson

I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.

— Demetri Martin

“The Washington Monument is just one part of the original design - there were due to be another thirty or so columns and statues…

— Jack Goldstein

Statues are one of the ways I try to test the traditions of European culture against the most modern destructive forces. I often make…

— Tony Harrison

“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional,…

— Mitch Landrieu

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it…

— Randolph Bourne

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

— Pablo Picasso

I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.

— Trevor Paglen

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

— Minnie Driver

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of…

— Marguerite Gardiner

The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a…

— Martin Filler

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

— Claes Oldenburg

“They’d left nothing behind but thoroughly empty dishes and—this would be one for the conspiracy theorists—several long blue hairs”

— Laini Taylor