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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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• ‟ Art does not exist for itself; it is but an avenue through and by which humanity expresses itself.

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• ‟ American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ That is how America gets her art: Contracting firms get the contract and the honor. Starving artists do the work. The government pays for sculpturing thousands of dollars, of which the sculptor gets a hundred or so.

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• ‟ Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

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• ‟ 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?

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Art is not what most people think it to be. It is not an occupation of one-railed people.

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• ‟ I am ready to rot in jail that art may live.

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• ‟ There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.

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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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• ‟ Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.

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• ‟ The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty.

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