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Quotes by Sculptor
"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."
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"Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease."
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"One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know."
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"I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works."
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"In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession."
50
"Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do."
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"But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing."
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"I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!"
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"Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important."
Time,
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"I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object."
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"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect."
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"In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist."
48
"And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone."
Time,
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"I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing."
46
"Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished."
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"I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work."
46
"I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's."
45
"I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here."
45
"But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play."
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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."
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"Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away."
44
"But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be."
43
"If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day."
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"In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever."
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"But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair."
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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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