Martin Puryear Quotes

• I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

  Martin Puryear

  Moving, Thinking, Grace

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• Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

  Martin Puryear

  Ideas, Rawness, Chance

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• There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever quality you put into the work. The work doesn't have to be a transparent vehicle for you to say things about life today.

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  Quality, Identity, Today

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• I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for use. And for me, not to rely strictly on the history of art has always been an interesting process, to be looking into areas that we call craft and trades.

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  Art, Interesting, People

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• El trabajo más preciso suele hacerse a mano, con herramientas manuales. Algunas personas confían en las máquinas para su precisión, y mi forma de trabajar es al revés. Confío en las máquinas para el arranque de viruta y luego, cuando se trata de los últimos retoques y el ajuste de juntas y cosas, de hacer que las cosas funcionen juntas, confío más en las herramientas afiladas que empujo a mano.

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  Hands, People, Together

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• At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

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  Art, Together, Sculpture

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• The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

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  Conocer

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• Nunca me interesó hacer objetos fríos, destilados, puros.

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  Objects, Pure

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• There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

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  Sculpture, Kind, Spontaneity

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• When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least.

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  Pensamiento, Dos, Manera

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• The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

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  Grieving, Fire, Mobility

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• I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

  Martin Puryear

  Casting, Carving, Method

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• The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.

  Martin Puryear

  Magic, Range, Site

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