History Quote by RaMell Ross

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

— Claes Oldenburg

I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about…

— Janet Echelman

Structure builds minds into great Monuments.

— Robert M. Hensel

The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who…

— Andre Malraux

“This is what great masterpieces must feel like on museum walls—like sighing, like climbing out of their rigidly stretched frames, and falling, boneless, into…

— Leylah Attar

“To visit the Tower, then, is to enter into contact not with a historical Sacred, as is the case for the majority of monuments,…

— Roland Barthes

“It is in providing outward display for things and pathways as they exist within the horizons of landscape that places enable memories to become…

— Edward Casey

“If we close our eyes and take a deep breath, and summon meaningful memories, we quickly notice that they are tied to a specific…

— Sarah Robinson

“It does not seem possible to me to conceive anything sadder than a monument composed of a smooth, naked and unadorned surface, of a…

— Aldo Rossi

“There are things around us and about, of which I can render no distinct account--Things material and spiritual; heaviness in the atmosphere; a sense…

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Santiago Calatrava

Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the world around…

— Anthony Lawlor