Gutzon Borglum Quotes

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

Art is the proper task of life.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends, so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.

Fashion has a reason to be, because in fashion you can find new kinds of expression about human beings. It's my way to communicate.

There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We somehow expect cinema to provide us with meaning, to console us. But that's not the purpose of art.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

Art is the signature of man.

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.