Zitat des Tages von Bruce Nauman:
If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.
And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.
And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.
In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.
I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.
I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.
The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.
If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.