It’s like a printer, it really doesn’t care.
— Sigrid Adriaenssens
Smithson argued for the equally positive value of each moment of the artistic process - a value that, if granted, would make it impossible to isolate the artistic process from the art object.
— Jennifer Roberts, Mirror Travels: Robert Smithson and History
Maybe you only live there for 10 minutes, but you live there.
— Lebbeus Woods via “Ever the Visionary, Lebbeus Woods Gets Real”
It sucks to be dead.
— Charlie Brandts
Forthcoming.
— BLDGBLOG, “Building in a Bottle”
It’s depressing and old but I like it.
— Kristin Cotter
Final review with Jeff would be like Godzilla.
— Michael Meredith
Well, wondering is part of the experience
— Martin Puryear via Martin Puryear/John Elderfield
What I’m focusing on now is discovering what is going to give the work validity on its own.
— Martin Puryear, Young American Artists via Martin Puryear/John Elderfield
I’m interested in making sculpture that tries to describe itself to the world, work that acknowledges its maker and that offers an experience that’s probably more tactile and sensate than strictly cerebral. And I’m not embarrassed if beauty is occasionally part of the experience, although I’m suspicious of easy beauty for its own sake.
— Martin Puryear, Martin Puryear/John Elderfield
One does not actually create the form; one lets it become.
— Heinz Isler via The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy
I keep track of myself.
— Richard Serra, Art 21
The work was itself the information… I’m making a case for my own vision.
— Martin Puryear, Art 21
7 The artist’s will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion…
12 For each work of art that becomes physical there are many variations that do not.
— Sol Lewitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art
Differences of spatial faith.
— Mark Rothko, “The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art”
For were they not thoroughly convinced that reality is precisely as they conceive it, they could not convince us of that reality in their own work and we should have nothing at all.
— Mark Rothko, “The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art”
The detailing of forms and their interrelationship is a personal choice.
— T. G. Beddall via Félix Candela: Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist
Shadows and dust.
— Proximo, Gladiator
More bigger. Bigger more.
— Michael Meredith
You see what you know.
You like what you understand.
— Moto of Jörg Schlaich