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

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so.

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.