Gutzon Borglum

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

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

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

“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.”

“There is none of that feeling about art that you meet everywhere in Europe. There you will hear people say, 'Oh, you must see such-and-such a statue at 4 o'clock in the afternoon; then the light is beautiful,' or, 'See this monument in the early morning; the light is best for it then.' Do you ever hear anything like that from an American?”