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

- Gutzon Borglum
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There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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