Gutzon Borglum Quotes

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.

I'm an artist in my heart.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

All men are creative but few are artists.

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Talent works, genius creates.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

I'm an artist at heart.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

There is nothing quite as exciting as watching a master at work.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

I dreamed of being an artist.

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.

At moments we are all artists.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.