Artist Quote by Rachel Kushner

I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it.

— Jeremy Scott

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

— Patricia Piccinini

I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.

— Don Everly

In the studio we use a pretty wide range of materials for the sculptures; silicone, fibreglass, human and animal hair, ABS plastic, dental acrylic,…

— Patricia Piccinini

I'm so fond of abstract design in the style of Vanderbilt and David Hicks and that whole 1970s era. They took the 1930s and…

— Jenny Packham

I use different kinds of materials on different kinds of projects. Today we can do things with steel and glass that we could not…

— Gottfried Bohm

There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces…

— Hugh Hardy

I've loosened up over the years about materials. I started off working for Matthew Barney, and that's what his mentality is. Even while we…

— Fernando Mastrangelo

I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do…

— Anonymous

When I was doing 'Les Mis,' someone sent me a collection of pencil rubbers.

— Hugh Skinner

I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

— Walead Beshty

In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. [Bernard] Leach did a little work in the studio, which was…

— Warren MacKenzie