I think Quote by Stephan Jenkins

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

— Christo

In old age, one should do something monumental.

— Xiao Qian

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of…

— Christo

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

— Claes Oldenburg

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ…

— Philip Johnson

It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this…

— Hans Hofmann

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

— Roger Zelazny

A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.

— Gutzon Borglum

They go together, don't they, 'monumental' and 'folly?'

— Paul Whitehouse

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

— Rem Koolhaas

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

— Ambrose Bierce

As a people, our monuments never commemorate victories. They commemorate the names of the fallen. We don't need the Arc de Triomphe; we have…

— David Elazar