"[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate."

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Source : "A Natural Love Story: Matthew Barney Talks About 'Drawing Restraint 9'" by Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2006.

Matthew Barney

#Sculpture Quotes #Stories Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.”
“This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun.”

Source : John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.27
“At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.”
“There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.”

Source : "Can Photojournalism Survive in the Instagram Era?". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2013.
“Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.”
“In Paris on a chilling evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind - a struggle which had engaged me for several months - might have a fatal outcome.”

Source : "Darkness Visible". Book by William Styron, 1990.
“Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.”
“It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.”

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