(86 quotes found)
“Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.”
Ernest Hemingway
“We're not here to leave a mark, bro. Monuments, legacies, marks - that's where we always go wrong. We're here to revel in the world, to soak in the awesomeness of it, to enjoy the ride. The world's maximum perfect as it is, beauty from horizon to horizon. Any mark any of us tries to leave - hell, it's only graffitti. Any mark anyone leaves is no better than vandalism.”
Dean Koontz
“The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.”
Clarence Day
“Let's build a monument for the veto. Let's build a monument for impotence and incapacity.”
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.”
William S. Burroughs
“When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.”
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.”
William Shakespeare
“I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.”
Paul Harvey
“I think if it's not monumental, there's no point.”
Stephan Jenkins
“In old age, one should do something monumental”
Xiao Qian
