Sunday, April 8, 2012
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
Saturday, April 7, 2012
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
Friday, April 6, 2012
One does not actually create the form; one lets it become.
— Heinz Isler via The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy
Thursday, April 5, 2012
I keep track of myself.
— Richard Serra, Art 21
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The work was itself the information… I’m making a case for my own vision.
— Martin Puryear, Art 21
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
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.
12 For each work of art that becomes physical there are many variations that do not.
— Sol Lewitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art
Monday, April 2, 2012
Differences of spatial faith.
— Mark Rothko, “The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art”
Sunday, April 1, 2012
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”
Saturday, March 31, 2012
The detailing of forms and their interrelationship is a personal choice.
— T. G. Beddall via Félix Candela: Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist
Friday, March 30, 2012
Shadows and dust.
— Proximo, Gladiator
Thursday, March 29, 2012
More bigger. Bigger more.
— Michael Meredith
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
You see what you know.
You like what you understand.
You like what you understand.
— Moto of Jörg Schlaich
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
I felt like I never lived in the present as much as when I did this.
— Eve Aschheim
Monday, March 26, 2012
The difference between intent and meaning.
— Nicole Elder
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Art functioned as proof.
— Michael Harris, “The Nineteenth Century: Imaged Ideology," Colored Pictures
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Sailors fighting in the dance hall.
— David Bowie, “Life On Mars?”
Friday, March 23, 2012
De Alto Cedro, voy para Marcan.
Llego a Cueto, voy para Mayari.
Llego a Cueto, voy para Mayari.
— Buena Vista Social Club, “Chan Chan”
Thursday, March 22, 2012
That was really tricky, I didn’t like that.
— Woman at Centre Pompidou
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
What he’s doing doesn’t seem rational, which makes me think it’s rational in a way I’m not privy to.
— Foreman, “Better Half," House
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Why did she seem so abstracted?
— James Joyce, The Dead