Martin Puryear quotes

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility. (Martin Puryear)

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

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

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

Martin Puryear

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

Martin Puryear

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

Martin Puryear

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

Martin Puryear

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

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

Martin Puryear