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

-- Martin Puryear

#Casting Quotes #Method Quotes #Carving Quotes

“How do you create something unknown?”
“When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)”

Source : George Saintsbury (2008). “Notes on a Cellar-Book”, p.30, Univ of California Press
“A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.”
“Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.”
“As an actor, it's much, much easier to be really nasty to someone that you really like.”
“How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!”
“I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.”
“If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.”

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