Art Quote by Georges Cuvier

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments…

— John Lothrop Motley

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

— Barnett Newman

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

— Mason Cooley

“masterpieces of beauty, craftsmanship, and stability, all erected”

— Robert Greene

“They passed a succession of granite monuments to the conquering magicians of the late Victorian age and the fallen heroes of the Great War,…

— Jonathan Stroud

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

— Barnett Newman

The temple of art is built in words.

— Anonymous

“It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history were erected, one…

— Abdus Salam

I like the word monument, because the word monument is a Latin word.

— Santiago Calatrava

For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the…

— Robert Motherwell