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. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
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 than the angels. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
America has no monuments to ideas; her monuments are erected to individuals. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
The Greeks, the Italians, and the Indians, from whom we get our ideas, erect monuments to ideas; we erect ours to men, and of such monuments we have an oversupply. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
A monument’s dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
Gutzon Borglum, the individual, is nothing. Art, expression, freedom are everything. On this I stand or fall. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
Forget about getting a bank balance and don’t be satisfied with things being good enough. Accept only that which is good or the best. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
