American Quote by Gutzon Borglum Download Open image “American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.” — Gutzon Borglum ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare American American Art American life Art Artist Keeping Keeping American Life Monumental Monumental Keeping Ought Monumental
Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger. — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive. — 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 adherence to… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
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 Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
