“This vanity of surviving our dust by lasting monuments of national gratitude, has prompted men to the most noble actions.”

A sharp observation on fame, mortality and the motive power of remembrance · Essay, On the Origin, Nature, and Design of Sculpture

• Fame
• Memory
• Mortality

“Heroes, patriots, and statesmen, are not only entitled to the love and veneration of their cotemporaries during their lives, but their virtues and services ought to be transmitted to the latest posterity.”

He argues that public art should carry worthy lives into collective memory · Essay, On the Origin, Nature, and Design of Sculpture

• Art
• Fame
• Memory