Art is not what most people think it to be. It is not an occupation of one-railed people. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
Women have always been the world’s burden bearers. Ever since history began the great burden of the world’s faith, its belief in immortality has been carried in the arms of its women. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
For many years I had been aware that women were not only most important creations in the universe, but the nearest approach that man could reach to the divine. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
You have here In New York one of the greatest and most picturesque and artistic structures in the world. I mean the Brooklyn Bridge. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
I have a very unsatisfactory and incomplete knowledge of Brooklyn and cannot discuss specifically either what you can do here or what possibilities the city shows in an artistic way. I am not a foreigner but coming here as I do after a long stay abroad, I think things here strike me much as they strike a foreigner. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
There is something in sheer volume that awes and terrifies, lifts us out of ourselves. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
Stone Mountain Memorial is the greatest project of its sort ever conceived. It should be finished, because it represent an idea as deep, as basic as the rocks on which our wonderful continent rests. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive. Gutzon Borglum Read Quote
