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

— Roger Zelazny , book This Immortal

Source: This Immortal (1965), p. 60

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American speculative fiction writer 1937–1995

Stanley Fish (1938) American academic

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“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”

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“Those who do monumental work don't need monuments.”

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After 50 years what democracy is this?

“The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.”

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Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter 8, p. 200

“No, leave it as a monument.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

In response to talk of demolishing Libby Prison. In Richmond, Virginia (April 4, 1865), as quoted in Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War https://archive.org/download/incidentsanecdot00port/incidentsanecdot00port.pdf (1885), by David Dixon Porter, p. 299
1860s, Tour of Richmond (1865)

“Monumentality is an affair of relativity. The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries both a meaning of its own and an associated meaning in relation to something else — its essential value is relative. We speak of the mood we experience when looking at a landscape. This mood results from the relation of certain things rather than from their separate actualities. This is because objects do not in themselves possess the total effect they give when interrelated.”

Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) American artist

'Excerpts from the Teaching of Hans Hofmann', p. 68
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)

“Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

No. 388
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“What the masses want are monuments.”

Jean Drapeau (1916–1999) former mayor of Montreal, Quebec (1954-1957,1960-1986)

Quoted in We need politically incorrect mayors by Victor Schukov http://westislandgazette.com/victorschukov/26987, West Island Gazette, Saturday, December 3, 2011

“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”

George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general

Quoted in 50 Military Leaders Who Changed the World‎ (2007) by William Weir, p. 173
Unsourced variant: Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. Anything built by man, can be destroyed by him.

“In contrast to the old monumental art [the book] itself goes to the people, and does not stand like a cathedral in one place waiting for someone to approach…. [The book is the] monument of the future.”

El Lissitsky (1890–1941) Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect

c. 1930
Wikipedia: El Lissitzky, note [2]
1926 - 1941

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

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