"Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in……" — Martin Puryear
"Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness."
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14 Quotes by Martin Puryear
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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,…
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At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a…
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I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.
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The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision,…
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The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.
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I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.
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I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of…
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I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.
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When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I…
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There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or…
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There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be…
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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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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
— Roseanne Barr
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
— Joe Barton
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do,…
— Bono
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It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's…
— Bono
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I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled…
— Kim Alexis
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