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Gutzon Borglum

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

Gutzon Borglum

Out of the west came Lincoln, and all that he had he gave to the preservation of the Union that had been bought so dearly and was falling to pieces.

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Gutzon Borglum

Lincoln has been my first love, and as always with first loves, it fixed a standard. So I scaled sunlit heights with Lincoln and produced the colossal marble head in the rotunda of the capitol of the United States.

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

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Gutzon Borglum

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.

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Gutzon Borglum, the individual, is nothing. Art, expression, freedom are everything. On this I stand or fall.

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Gutzon Borglum

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.

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I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.

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A monument’s dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.

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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.

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Gutzon Borglum

A piece of sculpture has to be more than a block of wood.

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

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