Architecture Quote by Martin Puryear

“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.”

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I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

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I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

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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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The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

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