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. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
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 in that small one-tenth of the time that he rises to the elevated position of a prophet and a master. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
I was born in the Golden West, reared in the arms of the Church, deluged with saints to draw from, and suckled on Italian art: my slates were covered from end to end with portraits of Savonarola, Fra Angelico, and Wild Bill and Sitting Bull; I knew all equally well and admired them about alike. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
Art does not exist for itself; it is but an avenue through and by which humanity expresses itself. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
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. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
