Gutzon Borglum, the individual, is nothing. Art, expression, freedom are everything. On this I stand or fall. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Art is not what most people think it to be. It is not an occupation of one-railed people. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Art does not exist for itself; it is but an avenue through and by which humanity expresses itself. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
That is how America gets her art: Contracting firms get the contract and the honor. Starving artists do the work. The government… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
I believe and find in my study of art that the real artist is nine-tenths of the time a craftsman, and it… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
You may go from the Battery to Harlem, and in our monuments and statues of public men you will see the slavish… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
If you are an artist, you may live with Lincoln. You sit with him, your coat is spread to keep the snow… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
I was born in the Golden West, reared in the arms of the Church, deluged with saints to draw from, and suckled… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share
Ten thousand years from now our civilization will have passed without leaving a trace. A new race of people will inhabit the earth. They… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share
Motherhood is heroism. It is God-given, and yet men treat women as though of similar common clay, when in fact they are but lower… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share
Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share
Out of the west came Lincoln, and all that he had he gave to the preservation of the Union that had been bought so… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share
I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share
Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share
Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share
You may go from the Battery to Harlem, and in our monuments and statues of public men you will see the slavish adherence to… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share
The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson,… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share
I believe and find in my study of art that the real artist is nine-tenths of the time a craftsman, and it is only… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share
You have here In New York one of the greatest and most picturesque and artistic structures in the world. I mean the Brooklyn Bridge. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share
