Les statues perpétuent l’oubli.

My attitude is, a monument, a statue, ought to signify unity instead of division.

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

We will be remembered only by the good work we leave behind even if our very own never remember us after we are gone.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.

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.