Martin Puryear

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

— Martin Puryear

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

— Martin Puryear

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I think of moving as a kind of saving grace. ↗

— Martin Puryear

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

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

— Martin Puryear

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