47 Quotes by Gutzon Borglum

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

Democracy has betrayed the race, because education has not served man as was expected.

I am ready to rot in jail that art may live.

Art does not exist for itself; it is but an avenue through and by which humanity expresses itself.

Genius knocks on the door and gets no answer but its own echo.

You may go from the Battery to Harlem, and in our monuments and statues of public men you will see the slavish adherence to Greek and Roman ideals, from which our artists cannot get away.

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

Art is not what most people think it to be. It is not an occupation of one-railed people.

The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty.