All Martin Puryear Quotes
- 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… Almost Magical
- 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. Architecture
- Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness. Accident
- I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting. Carving
- 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… Backwards
- The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are. Flowing
- I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects. Cool
- 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… Areas
- I think of moving as a kind of saving grace. Grace
- 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… Africa
- 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… Beauty
- 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… Intensive
- The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility. Fire
- I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object. Felt