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Quotes of the Day for 25 March 2005 - Faces

John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum was born at St. Charles, Idaho Territory on this day in 1867. He developed an interest in sculpture while watching his father carve wood, and trained in San Francisco and Paris. In Paris he was most influenced by the works of Auguste Rodin. He returned to the US and worked at New York City for a while. His work became part of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and he carved the first sculpture bought by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was commissioned to carve a head of Abraham Lincoln from a six-ton block of marble, and he found that working on large faces appealed to him. He spent the rest of his life carving faces out of Mount Rushmore, four former presidents, each face sixty feet tall. For most of us, there is much to see in Faces at the normal scale.

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
     - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

You may search my time-worn face, You'll find a merry eye that twinkles. I am NOT an old lady, just a little girl with wrinkles.
     - Edythe E. Bregnard

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.
     - Helen Hunt Jackson, 1830 - 1885

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
     - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533 - 1592

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
     - Natalie Clifford Barney, 1876 - 1972

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
     - Coco Chanel, 1883 - 1971

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