47 Quotes by Gutzon Borglum

There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

There is none of that feeling about art that you meet everywhere in Europe. There you will hear people say, 'Oh, you must see such-and-such a statue at 4 o'clock in the afternoon; then the light is beautiful,' or, 'See this monument in the early morning; the light is best for it then.' Do you ever hear anything like that from an American?

If you are an artist, you may live with Lincoln. You sit with him, your coat is spread to keep the snow from the grave of Ann Rutledge; you will walk with Washington through the snow and suffer with him as you note the bloodstained footsteps at Valley Forge.

I have labored to make the record of the great men of my time.

An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in our own slums.

Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

Nebraska people have the heart and power to create real beauty and art if they will only wake up and do it.