Martin Puryear Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms 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.
~Martin Puryear


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The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
~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, there was a whole range of the local ecology.
~Martin Puryear


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/martin-puryear-quotes/#270e58a0

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.
~Martin Puryear


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/martin-puryear-quotes/#a8dbe8de

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
~Martin Puryear


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/martin-puryear-quotes/#2828f96c

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/martin-puryear-quotes/#7edf4769

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/martin-puryear-quotes/#7f6db81e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/martin-puryear-quotes/#753aa9df

I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.
~Martin Puryear


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/martin-puryear-quotes/#3eb39370

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