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Man's soul is strengthened by suffering.
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Strengthened
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Renaissance always comes out of depression.
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Depression
Renaissance
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I am ready to rot in jail that art may live.
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Jail
Rot
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A piece of sculpture has to be more than a block of wood.
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Block
Sculpture
Wood
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A city of homes should not be built as a business center.
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Homes
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Genius knocks on the door and gets no answer but its own echo.
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Echo
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I have labored to make the record of the great men of my time.
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Great Men
Time Men Great
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Mount Rushmore is eternal. It will stand until the end of time.
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Eternal
Stand
Mount
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American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.
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American Life
Monumental
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No man can ever repay the brooding mother love to which he his life.
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Brooding
Life Love Man
Life Love Mother
Repay
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America has no monuments to ideas; her monuments are erected to individuals.
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Monuments
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Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.
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Civilization
Each
Forgets
Predecessor
Succeeding
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The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty.
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Beauty
Aim
Form
Order
Understand
Establish
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Democracy has betrayed the race, because education has not served man as was expected.
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Betrayed
Served
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There is something in sheer volume that awes and terrifies, lifts us out of ourselves.
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Lifts
Sheer
Volume
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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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Occupation
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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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Avenue
Expresses
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Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.
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Motive
Cause
Life Nothing Everything
Effect
Merely
Shell
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Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.
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Achievement
Sources
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A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.
Gutzon Borglum / Artist
Civilization
Determined
Dimensions
Monument
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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.
Gutzon Borglum / Artist
Jail
Ready
Life I Am My Life
Admit
Enemies
Rot
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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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Nebraska
Real Beauty
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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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Beauty Life Art
Unmistakable
Presence
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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 / Artist
New York
Brooklyn
Picturesque
Greatest
Bridge
York
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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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Best Good Enough
Bank
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An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in our own slums.
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Population
Slums
Centers
Cultural
Near
Starve
Unless
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Motherhood is heroism. It is God-given, and yet men treat women as though of similar common clay, when in fact they are but lower than the angels.
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Clay
Common
Heroism
Motherhood
Angels
God-Given
In Fact
Lower
Similar
Though
Treat
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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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Preservation
Dearly
Falling
Lincoln
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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 / Artist
Approach
Divine
Universe
Aware
Creations
Nearest
Reach
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The Greeks, the Italians, and the Indians, from whom we get our ideas, erect monuments to ideas; we erect ours to men, and of such monuments we have an oversupply.
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Erect
Greeks
Indians
Italians
Monuments
Ours
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We have been concentrating on the banks, business and our bellies. We have neglected the spiritual and cultural. It was because Rome and Athens neglected these things that they fell.
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Athens
Concentrating
Neglected
Rome
Spiritual
Banks
Bellies
Cultural
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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.
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Arms
Belief
Burden
Immortality
Began
Carried
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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.
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Adherence
Ideals
Statues
Battery
Monuments
Roman
Slavish
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Ten thousand years from now our civilization will have passed without leaving a trace. A new race of people will inhabit the earth. They will come to Mount Rushmore and read the record we have made.
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Civilization
Leaving
Race
Ten
Thousand
Thousand Years
People Will New
Inhabit
Record
Mount
Passed
Trace
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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 / Artist
Finished
Memorial
Mountain
Rocks
Wonderful
Greatest
Basic
Idea
Conceived
Continent
Represent
Project
Rests
Stone
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The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Expansion
Memorial
United States
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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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Capitol
Colossal
First Love
Fixed
Marble
Loves
Heights
Lincoln
Standard
Produced
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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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Craftsman
Prophet
Elevated
Nine-Tenths
Real Artist
Rises
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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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Starving
Contract
Sculptor
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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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Age
Government
Civilization
Dedicated
Mean
Monument
Two
Mr
Carved
Could
Washington
Lincoln
Rock
Outlive
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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.
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Footsteps
Snow
Spread
Coat
Grave
Lincoln
Note
Suffer
Valley
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Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and rain alone shall wear them away.
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Men
Prayer
Rain
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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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Arms
Covered
Golden
Portraits
Admired
Alike
Bull
Equally
Saints
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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.
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Artistic
Brooklyn
Incomplete
Abroad
Knowledge I Am Me
Discuss
Foreigner
Possibilities
Specifically
Strike
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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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Afternoon
Early Morning
Europe
Monument
Everywhere
Hear People
None
People Say
Statue
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