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Top 10 Martin Puryear Quotes (2025 Update)

Martin Puryear Quote: “Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.”

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

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Martin Puryear Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Martin Puryear Quote: “I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for use. And for me, not to rely strictly on the history of art has always been an interesting process, to be looking into areas that we call craft and trades.”

3. “I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for use. And for me, not to rely strictly on the history of art has always been an interesting process, to be looking into areas that we call craft and trades.”

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Martin Puryear Quote: “I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.”

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

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Martin Puryear Quote: “There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it’s through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever quality you put into the work. The work doesn’t have to be a transparent vehicle for you to say things about life today.”

5. “There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it’s through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever quality you put into the work. The work doesn’t have to be a transparent vehicle for you to say things about life today.”

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Martin Puryear Quote: “The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.”

6. “The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.”

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Martin Puryear Quote: “I realized it wasn’t necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.”

7. “I realized it wasn’t necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.”

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Martin Puryear Quote: “There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.”

8. “There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.”

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Martin Puryear Quote: “I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.”

9. “I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.”

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Martin Puryear Quote: “The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.”

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

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Martin Puryear Quote: “When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least.”

11. “When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least.”

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Martin Puryear Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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