Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

They only name things after you when you're dead or really old.

If you look at the architecture of Washington, D.C., it is not by mistake that the dome over the Capitol is the very center of the federal city. The White House and the Supreme Court are set about us, satellites to the supreme power of the people expressed in the legislative authority of Congress.

My artistic decision to cast my mother's objects into bronze moves beyond the notions of memorializing her. I've been fascinated for some time with the idea of monumentality and what it means to memorialize. Both of these notions are relevant historically, artistically, and culturally.

When you're driving into D.C. as a young kid and you go over the Key Bridge and see the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and Capitol Building, they become a part of the landscape for you. You are also constantly in contact with this idea that history, and the people that made it, are being remembered.

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

But monument themselves memorials need.

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

When you wear that shirt with the five stars on the front you have to respect it.

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an overwhelming experience that you could say architecture is that which makes ruins beautiful.

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

Prateik means symbol so I symbolise certain things in my life.

People don't become better when they're dead; you just talk about them as if they are.

People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.

The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

To be is to stand for.

We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.