An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons,… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter.… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
I think what interests me the most is when the two things are developed at the same time, which certainly feels natural for the… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea,… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
![“[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.” quote by Matthew Barney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5c9/matthew-barney-39025_firsts_i-have-a-way-of-making-narrative-sculptu_2992433.jpg)