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. — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backwards. I rely on the machines for doing the gross stock removal and then,… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility. — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
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… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
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… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
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… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting. — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object. — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are. — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
