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"Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments."
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"I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form."
Job
"Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away."
Content
"It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere."
Boredom
"One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere."
Art
"I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to."
Now
"It's the role of the artist to pursue content."
Art
"There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer."
Work
"What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world."
Meaning
"I've nothing to say."
Nothing
"Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80."
Art
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