Martin Puryear Quotes

"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
(Related: Art, Building, Sculpture)

"I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Spirit)

"The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Work)

"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
(Related: Ecology)

"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Fire, Freedom)

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

"I think of moving as a kind of saving grace."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Grace)

"Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness."
- Martin Puryear
(Related: Work, Idea, Accident, Chance)